• The visit marks his third visit as UAE President and fifth visit overall to India.

Highlights of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s Visit to India:
Bilateral Meeting: PM Narendra Modi and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed held bilateral meetings, with a focus on trade expansion, and reviewed and strengthened the India-UAE Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP).
Key Outcomes:
During UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s visit, India and the UAE announced several initiatives in trade, technology, energy, digital cooperation, culture, and people-to-people ties to strengthen long-term bilateral relations and economic integration.

• India and the UAE agreed to expand their Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), aiming to double bilateral trade to over USD 200 billion by 2032.
• They also announced a collaboration between Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and G-42 to establish a supercomputing cluster, agreed to partner in advanced nuclear technologies including large reactors and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), and planned to promote trade and investment with the First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) and DP World operating from GIFT City, Gujarat.

Key Agreements Signed:

• A Letter of Intent (LoI) was signed for the development of Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) in Gujarat.
• Another LoI between Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) and the UAE Space Agency aims to develop joint space infrastructure, including launch facilities, tech zones, start-up incubation, training institutes.
• A Defence LoI was signed to create a Strategic Defence Partnership focusing on industry, technology, training, education, special operations, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism.
• In energy, a 10-year Sales & Purchase Agreement (SPA) enables HPCL to import 0.5 million tonnes per annum(MTPA) of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from ADNOC Gas starting 2028.
• Additionally, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between APEDA (MoC&I) and the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment seeks to enhance food sector trade.