TIL Desk/World/New Delhi/ A month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended his swearing in, Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih will visit India, marking a new thrust in the relations between the two countries. This was decided during discussions on Monday between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and visiting Foreign Minister of Maldives Abdulla Shahid.
“The Foreign Ministers agreed that the state visit of President Solih to India will take place on December 17, 2018. In this regard, both ministers held wide consultations to lay the groundwork for this visit,” an External Affairs Ministry release said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attended the swearing-in ceremony of Solih on November 17 and was the senior-most foreign leader to attend the ceremony in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation that went through immense political turmoil under former President Abdulla Yameen.
The two sides discussed security and defence matters including ongoing projects and new areas of cooperation and agreed to hold the next meeting of the Defence Cooperation Dialogue in the first-half of December 2018.
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