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UAE-India ties on upswing: Indian envoy
ABU DHABI - The UAE-India relations have progressed significantly over the last few years, said the outgoing Indian ambassador, K. C. Singh. "There has been a steady upswing in the relations between the two countries, marked particularly by the recent visit to New Delhi of the high-level UAE delegation, led by Lt. General Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of Staff of the UAE Armed Forces," said the envoy.
Mr Singh said that it was during Lt. Gen. Shaikh Mohammed's visit from June 29 to July 1, that the two countries decided to institute an annual strategic dialogue to comprehensively cooperate in various fields from economy to energy and defence.
He said that India had always admired and had been impressed by the social, economic, environmental and agricultural development that the UAE had achieved under the leadership of the President, His Highness Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
"Besides the fact that the UAE is one of the most developed countries in the world today, it is also a rare feat that a desert country has planted 250 million trees and like all other achievements, this one particular aspect of greening the UAE is noted with particular interest in India, which also has to fight the problem of desertification in some regions," he said.
Mr Singh added that the two countries had had long-standing and historical ties, which had often been re-enforced by exchange of visits by the leadership in both countries.
He recalled that while Shaikh Zayed visited India in 1992 and 1976, the late Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi had visited the UAE in May 1981. He noted that the two countries had similar foreign policies.
In their joint statements, both said that the security and stability of the Gulf region and the Indian subcontinent were interlinked and that peace and stability in one region depended on the peace and stability in the other.
The recent high-level delegation, led by Lt. Gen. Shaikh Mohammed, included Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister for Information and Culture, Shaikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Economic Department, as well as top officials from the energy, economic and strategic areas.
The outgoing envoy said that a growing country like India would need a large quantum of energy, particularly gas, to be imported and that with the new technology emerging in the last couple of years, there was a good chance of gas grids and pipelines between India and the Gulf.
He noted that the UAE had always been a reliable, friendly supplier. India imports some 70 per cent of its oil and gas, and the gap between domestic production and import requirements is growing due to the rapid development of the country.
In the area of information, he said the two countries had been steadily cooperating, noting that Indian news agency, The United News of India (UNI), had posted a correspondent in Abu Dhabi as part of the cooperation measures towards the visit of Mrs Gandhi in 1981, and signed an agreement with UAE's official Emirates News Agency, Wam, for news exchange.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) followed suit by signing a similar agreement when Shaikh Abdullah visited New Delhi in April 2000, and recently, Wam had also appointed an India correspondent.
Mr Singh also thanked the UAE government for all the cooperation he had received from the UAE government and the foreign ministry in particular.
Asked about the large Indian community in the UAE, he said that Shaikh Zayed had said that his government treated everyone equally and without any discrimination. The UAE government was a 'very good host' to the Indian community and the Indians rightly worked hard as the 'guests should do in a country they come to work for', he said.
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