Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 20: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has announced that he will visit India in the first week of April to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
The visit also intends to strengthen bilateral collaboration in sectors like as innovation and technology, security and cyber, agriculture, and climate change.
“Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will pay his first official visit to India on Saturday, 2 April 2022, at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” the Israeli PM’s Foreign Media Adviser said in a statement.
The two leaders initially met last October on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, when Modi invited Bennett to visit India on an official basis, according to the statement.
“This visit will reaffirm the important connection between the countries and the leaders, and will mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of relations between Israel and India,” it added.
Sources said that it will be a four-day visit from April 2 to April 5. The full schedule of the visit and additional details will be issued separately