{"id":64836,"date":"2026-01-19T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/pm-modi-receives-uae-president-sheikh-mohamed-bin-zayed-at-delhi-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:10:37","slug":"pm-modi-receives-uae-president-sheikh-mohamed-bin-zayed-at-delhi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/pm-modi-receives-uae-president-sheikh-mohamed-bin-zayed-at-delhi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi receives UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed at Delhi airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister <strong>Narendra Modi<\/strong> on Monday received <strong>United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan<\/strong> at the Delhi airport, underlining the importance India attaches to the high-level visit.<\/p>\n<p>According to the schedule released by the <strong>Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)<\/strong>, the UAE President will be in the national capital for <strong>less than two hours<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes against the backdrop of a <strong>volatile situation in the Middle East<\/strong>, marked by a sharp downturn in <strong>Iran\u2013US relations<\/strong>, continuing tensions between <strong>Saudi Arabia and the UAE over Yemen<\/strong>, and the <strong>unsettled political situation in Gaza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and Prime Minister Modi are expected to hold <strong>wide-ranging talks<\/strong> during the brief visit. Officials familiar with the discussions said key issues on the agenda include <strong>trade and investment<\/strong>, <strong>defence industry cooperation<\/strong>, and <strong>energy initiatives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The evolving situation in the Middle East is also likely to feature prominently in the talks, they added.<\/p>\n<p>This is the UAE leader\u2019s <strong>third official visit to India<\/strong> since assuming office and his <strong>fifth visit to the country in the last decade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>India and the UAE have witnessed a significant expansion in <strong>bilateral trade and people-to-people ties<\/strong> following the signing of the <strong>Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)<\/strong> in 2022, which has given fresh momentum to the strategic partnership between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday received United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Delhi airport, underlining the importance India attaches&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64836","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}