Amid speculations and studies of the UAE attempting to facilitate dialogue between India and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will undertake a visit to Abu Dhabi at present. The Pakistani Overseas Minister Shah M Querishi can even be in UAE however either side to date indicated that there isn’t any likelihood of a bilateral.

“On the invitation of his counterpart, EAM @DrSJaishankar will likely be visiting Abu Dhabi on 18th April 2021. His discussions will deal with financial cooperation and group welfare,” tweeted MEA spokesperson asserting the go to.

“Jaishankar’s go to to UAE on April 18 is a purely bilateral one. He will likely be discussing some urgent financial and group welfare points, associated to the Covid-19 state of affairs. His engagements are solely with UAE dignitaries,” sources stated.

Concurrently in response to media queries on attainable assembly between Qureshi and Jaishankar, the next is attributable to Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, Spokesperson of the Pak Ministry of Overseas Affairs, stated, “No such assembly is scheduled throughout Overseas Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s ongoing go to to the UAE”.

That is Jaishankar’s second journey to UAE in lower than one yr because the nation emerges a key regional accomplice for India. UAE Overseas Minister additionally undertook a visit right here just a few months again.

“India-UAE complete strategic partnership has actually emerged stronger because the begin of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fixed, high-level, empathetic exchanges between our leaderships have ensured this consequence. Along with a number of telephonic and digital exchanges, India’s Exterior Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar visited the UAE in late November 2020. It was his first bilateral go to abroad because the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Through the go to, he met Their Highnesses Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces; and his counterpart, Sheikha Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan,” Indian envoy to UAE Pawan Kapoor not too long ago instructed Khaleej Times.

The Indian authorities, nonetheless, has refused to touch upon the function performed by UAE in facilitating dialogue between India and Pakistan.