India attaches the highest
importance to the full development of bilateral ties with Israel. Our bilateral
cooperation has grown in a number of areas over the past two decades but the
potential of our relations are much more,” she told media along with Mr.
Netanyahu before their meeting. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who is on her first visit to West Asia as
the External Affairs Minister, said she was looking forward to her discussions
with the top Israeli leadership India
attaches the highest importance to its ties with Israel as she called on Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the entire spectrum of the relationship.
I take special pleasure in welcoming you here and sending my regards to my good
friend and colleague Prime Minister Modi. The expression of this growing
relationship has been in the visit of the (Indian) President, the first ever by
an Indian Head of State,” he said. Ms. Swaraj would also meet President Reuven
Rivlin, Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Minister of Infrastructure Yuval
Shteinitz and deputy Foreign Minister Tsipi Hotovely. She will be also meeting
the Indian community in Israel. Ms. Swaraj’s visit comes barely three months
after the historic visit of President Pranab Mukherjee, the first by an Indian
Head of State to Israel, and aims at encasing on the goodwill generated by that
visit. There are four groups of Indian Jewish communities in Israel with
strength of approximately 80,000.
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