New Delhi:

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu will probably be visiting India from October 6 to 10, the overseas ministry mentioned right this moment. This will probably be his first bilateral go to to India. He had earlier travelled to India in June this yr for the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his council of ministers.

Mr Muizzu will meet President Droupadi Murmu and maintain discussions with PM Modi on bilateral, regional, and worldwide problems with mutual curiosity throughout his go to. He may even go to Mumbai and Bengaluru the place he could be attending enterprise occasions.

Maldives is India’s key maritime neighbour within the Indian Ocean Area (IOR). The nation additionally discovered a particular place within the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient of ‘SAGAR’ (Safety and Development for All within the Area) and India’s ‘Neighbourhood First Coverage’.

“The go to of President Mohamed Muizzu to India after the latest go to of the Exterior Affairs Minister )S Jaishankar) to the Maldives is testimony to the significance that India attaches to its relations with the Maldives and is anticipated to lend additional momentum to cooperation and strong individuals to individuals ties between the 2 international locations,” the Minister of Exterior Affairs mentioned in a press release.

S Jaishankar visited the Maldives in August – first high-level journey from New Delhi after the island nation’s pro-China president, Muizzu, assumed workplace in November final yr.

Throughout his go to, he met the Maldives President and different high leaders and guaranteed them that New Delhi hooked up high precedence to its multifaceted relationship with Male and was decided to additional its developmental cooperation with the nation.

India’s relationship with the Maldives was damage after Muizzu, recognized for his pro-China leanings, took cost because the President late final yr.

Inside hours of his oath, he demanded India change the defence personnel it had stationed within the Maldives with civilians.

He, nevertheless, visited India to attend PM Modi’s oath-taking ceremony and not too long ago reaffirmed his administration’s full dedication to strengthening the historic and shut connections between the Maldives and India.

He mentioned that India has at all times been one of many closest allies and invaluable companions, facilitating and offering support each time Maldives has wanted it.