PM Narendra Modi meets Oman Sultan, MoUs on military, legal co-operation signed

Besides the annexure to the MoU on military cooperation, the agreements were on legal and judicial cooperation, tourism, health, peaceful uses of outer space, among others.

PM Modi at the Museum of Future (Source: Twitter/@MEAIndia)

Eight agreements, including one pertaining to military cooperation, were signed between India and Oman after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Oman’s Sultan Qaboos on Sunday night.

Besides the annexure to the MoU on military cooperation, the agreements were on legal and judicial cooperation, tourism, health, peaceful uses of outer space, among others.

There was also a pact on mutual visa exemption for diplomatic, special, service and official passport. An MoU was signed between the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and National Defence College of Sultanate of Oman on academic and scholarly cooperation sectors, and another MoU was signed between the Foreign Service Institute and the Oman Diplomatic Institute.

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During the bilateral meeting with PM Modi, Sultan Qaboos appreciated the contribution of honest and hard working Indian nationals in the development of Oman, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. “Charting out new frontiers in our bilateral relationship, PM Modi held delegation level talks with Sultan Qaboos. The two strategic partners discussed to strengthen cooperation in trade and investment, energy, defence and security, food security and regional issues.”

The Prime Minister, who will visit a Shiva temple in Muscat on Monday, will also visit the Grand Mosque built by Sultan Qaboos. He will meet the deputy Prime Minister of Oman, before departing for Delhi.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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