
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his first official visit to Qatar, where he met the Gulf country’s leaders on Sunday.
The Indian Embassy says bilateral trade reached $15.7 billion in 2014-2015, though just around $1 billion of that constituted Indian exports to Qatar. Since 2010, India has been purchasing 7.5 million tons of LNG every year from Qatar.
Modi and Qatar’s ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who visited India in March 2015, signed seven agreements to strengthen ties, according to the official Twitter account of India’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Vikas Swarup.
Modi also met Qatari businessmen and encouraged them to invest more in India, calling it “a land of opportunity.”
Modi arrived on Saturday and met with Indian laborers that evening. The premier, who is active on Twitter, posted photos of himself dining and chatting with the workers.
There are more than a half-million Indians living in Qatar. Foreigners account for roughly 90 percent of the 2.5 million people living in the country.
Source: Arab News
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