India keen on high level interactions with UAE in 2016

Abu Dhabi - Shaikh Nahyan, Ghobash attend Indian Republic Day reception in Capital.

India is looking to very high level interactions with the UAE in 2016 as well.
"We hope such high levels contacts will cement our partnership further in the weeks and months ahead, "said India's Ambassador to the UAE T.P. Seetharam while speaking at a dinner-reception he hosted to celebrate the 67^th Republic Day.
The reception was attended by more than 500 diplomats, government officials and the community members. Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Social Development and Saqr Saeed Ghobash, Minister of Labour, were the chief guests on the occasion.
In his brief speech, ambassador said: "For India-UAE relations, 2015 was indeed a very special year."
The visit to the UAE of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2015, "will be remembered as one that resulted in a paradigm shift in the way we see each other." And already excellent people-to-people relationship with significant economic content was transformed and elevated to a comprehensive strategic partnership which is truly multi-dimensional, he said.
Both countries have set ambitious targets for trade and investments and listed 30-specific areas of cooperation including security, counter-terrorism, space, defence productions, IT, Infrastructure, energy, renewables and a host of other areas including several new fields of cooperation, the ambassador said.
Indian ministers and experts are engaged actively in following up and implementing what leaders of the UAE and India had agreed upon.
The large Indian community is also contributing in many ways to the developmental activities of the UAE to enhancing the bilateral relationship.
He lauded the services of Saqar Saeed Ghobash for his several initiatives which are benefiting the Indian workers.
The reception was attended by people from various walks of life.
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