President Yameen to make official visit to India
President Abdulla Yameen is scheduled to make an official visit to India ahead of a crucial Commonwealth summit. He is due to call on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 10.
08 Apr 2016, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen is due to call on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an official visit to New Delhi on April 10, the president’s office has announced.
Yameen is also scheduled to meet with President of India, Pranah Mukerjee, and will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Mohamed Shainee and three MPs.
The two-day visit comes amidst a lobbying effort by the government to avoid action by the Commonwealth over widely condemned human rights abuses, including the imprisonment of former President Mohamed Nasheed.
Yameen, in a visit to Malaysia in March, sought the help of the Malaysian government to make sure “small countries in the Commonwealth and other international organisations need not be unfairly punished.”
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