Prime Minister Narendra Modi To Visit Saudi Arabia Next Week—Here's What's On The Agenda

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia from 22 April, marking his third visit to the Kingdom.

The visit comes amid deepening strategic engagement between New Delhi and Riyadh, especially following the launch of the India-Saudi Strategic Partnership Council in 2023 during the Crown Prince’s state visit to India for the G20 Summit.

"Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will embark on a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from April 22-23, 2025 at the invitation of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This will be the third visit of the Prime Minister to the Kingdom after his previous visits in 2016 and 2019," the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Saturday (19 April).

The ministry said that India and Saudi Arabia share close and friendly ties with a long history of socio-cultural and trade contacts.

"As strategic partners, the two countries share strong bilateral relations across various areas including political, defence, security, trade, investment, energy, technology, health, education, culture and people-to-people ties," the MEA said.

"India’s relations with the Kingdom have evolved into a stronger and enduring partnership in the past decade, expanding into many strategic domains, with growing investment commitments, broadening of defence cooperation and intensive high-level exchanges across sectors," it added.

The MEA said that the visit of the Prime Minister reflects the importance India attaches to its bilateral relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

"It will provide an opportunity to further deepen and strengthen our multi-faceted partnership, as well as to exchange views on various regional and international issues of mutual interest," the ministry added.

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