President meets with Rahul Gandhi

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

President Mohamed Nasheed has met with  Rahul Gandhi, MP. The meting was held at the President’s Office.

In the meeting, the President and  Gandhi discussed the progress in developmental cooperation activities between the Maldives and India, and identified new areas in which cooperation could be increased.

The President said that the Maldives and India had a long history of friendship, fraternity and cooperation, and noted that Rahul Gandhi’s visit would boost relations between the two neighbours.

Gandhi said that India attached great importance to enhancing relations with the Maldives, and discussed avenues for increased cooperation between the two countries.

He also assured that India would continue its assistance to the Maldives.

Rahul’s father Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi forged very cordial relations wit the Maldives during the tenure of President Gayoom. Indian Government became a major partner in the development pursuit of Maldives. Indian Government also responded immediately by sending their troops to crush an attempt to takeover the country by armed Tamil insurgents from neighboring Sri Lanka on 3 November 1988. The premier tertiary hospital in Male, Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital is a donation by the Indian Government in addition to many other Indian assisted development projects.

Indian companies are also investing more than US$ one billion in tourism, housing, energy, health and other areas in President Mohamed Nasheeds privatization program. There is a new agreement in the offing to counter terrorism and exchange information in light of the vulnerability of the tourist paradise to terrorist threats in the region. The Ministry of Health has last month signed an MOU to handover management of IGMH to popular Indian Hospital chain Apollo Hospitals.

Rahul Gandhi has arrived in Male’ yesterday afternoon. Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary of India’s ruling Congress party and MP for Amethi who is the son of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Congress President Sonia Gandhi is visiting the Maldives at the invitation of President Mohamed Nasheed. Rahul was welcomed at the Male’ International Airport by President Nasheed, Vice President Dr. Waheed and some senior ministers and officials of the Government. Rahul is one of the most popular young leaders of India who many believe will become Prime Minister of India following the path of his great grand father Indian’s freedom hero and first Prime Minister Javahar Lal Nehru and grandson of Nehru’s daughter late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
 
Rahul will be leaving Male’ today.

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