India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, reached Saudi Arabia to attend the first India-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The visit involves envisaged bilateral talks with the foreign ministers of the GCC member nations, according to the MEA.
The GCC is a political and economic organization of the Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman. The MEA stated the importance of the bilateral relations between both parties and illustrated cooperation in political, trade, energy, and cultural sectors and friendly people-to-people relations. With approximately 8. The GCC region is a valuable trading partner for India, where 9 million Indians live now.
After the Riyadh meeting, Jaishankar will visit Berlin on September 10 and 11. This will be the third time that he has visited Berlin as Minister, and during this trip, he will deal with Germany, which is one of India’s strategic partners and a major foreign direct investor in India.
In addition, Jaishankar will meet with the heads of the international organizations that interact with India in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 12-13.
More to the point, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, will visit India on September 9-10, where he will meet with PM Narendra Modi to discuss the modalities of strengthening cooperation.
Before that, Jaishankar spoke about the need to reinvigorate ties between India and the Mediterranean region, stressing that today’s global challenges would mean that India and the respective countries should work more closely on the potential for energy cooperation in the production of green hydrogen and ammonia eventually.
