Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on his appointment as the new president of the United Arab Emirates on Saturday 14 May.
Modi expressed confidence that the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries will deepen under his dynamic and visionary leadership.
Sheikh Mohammed has been unanimously elected president of the United Arab Emirates, a hereditary monarchy on the Arabian Peninsula.The rulers of the country’s seven sheikhdoms decided at a meeting in Abu Dhabi’s Al Mushrif Palace.
PM Modi tweet
My best wishes to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on his election as the new President of the United Arab Emirates,” PM Modi tweeted.
I am confident that our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership will continue to deepen under his dynamic and visionary leadership.”
India and UAE Relation
The friendship between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is based on millennia of cultural, religious, and economic exchange between the two countries. For centuries, people-to-people contacts and barter trade have existed between the two regions.
The bilateral ties between the Republic of India and the United Arab Emirates are referred to as India–UAE relations. Indians are also the UAE’s largest minority ethnic group, accounting for roughly 38 percent of the country’s total population.
With a bilateral trade turnover of US$ 68.4 billion in the calendar year 2021, India is the UAE’s largest export destination and trading partner. The UAE exported US$ 43.04 billion to India, while India exported US$ 25.4 billion to the UAE.
India and the United Arab Emirates signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in 2022 to increase bilateral trade to $100 billion in five years.
