Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar bin Ibrahim is coming to India on a three-day ‘state visit’ today, Monday.
In a statement, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar bin Ibrahim will be on a state visit to India from August 19 to 21 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Ministry of External Affairs said that this will be Anwar bin Ibrahim’s first visit to India as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the Malaysian Prime Minister will be formally welcomed at the Rashtrapati Bhavan courtyard on Tuesday, after which he will visit Mahatma Gandhi’s mausoleum at Rajghat to pay his respects. After that, the Malaysian Prime Minister will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A luncheon has been organized in his honour.
After that, Prime Minister Anwar bin Ibrahim will meet and interact with President Draupadi Murmu and Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar.
The Ministry of External Affairs said that socio-cultural and historical relations between India and Malaysia are very strong. In 2015, Prime Minister Modi visited Malaysia and the bilateral relationship was upgraded to an advanced strategic partnership during that visit.
It was further said that, next year both the countries will enter the second decade of strategic partnership, so India-Malaysia bilateral relations will get more strength from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s visit in the coming time.
Earlier, Malaysian Minister Johari Abdul Ghani also visited India from July 16 to 19 and during this time he met Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at Krishi Bhawan and discussed increasing bilateral agricultural cooperation between the two countries. was discussed.