Maldives Overseas Minister Abdulla Khaleel arrived right here on Thursday on a three-day go to to discover methods to bolster bilateral ties in a number of key areas together with maritime safety, commerce and funding. Khaleel’s journey to India comes practically three months after Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu visited India.
On Friday, the Maldivian international minister will maintain wide-ranging talks together with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar protecting virtually all points of India-Maldives ties.
“Working in direction of India-Maldives joint imaginative and prescient of a ‘Complete Financial & Maritime Safety Partnership’. Heat welcome to FM @abkhaleel of Maldives on his first official go to to India,” Exterior Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated on ‘X’.
The Maldives is certainly one of India’s key maritime neighbours within the Indian Ocean Area and the general bilateral ties together with in areas of defence and safety witnessed an upward trajectory underneath the earlier authorities in Male. The ties between India and the Maldives got here underneath extreme pressure after Muizzu, recognized for his pro-China leanings, took cost of the highest workplace in November 2023.
Inside hours of his oath, he had demanded the withdrawal of Indian navy personnel from his nation. Subsequently, the Indian navy personnel had been changed by civilians.
Nonetheless, Muizzu vowed to spice up ties with India throughout his go to to Delhi in October.
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