Overview
- External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar spoke by phone with Bahrain’s Abdullatif Al Zayani to discuss strengthening the longstanding partnership and regional developments.
- He met Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani in Doha to review energy, trade, investment and people-to-people ties.
- Jaishankar also called on Qatar’s Amir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, conveying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s greetings and discussing expanded collaboration.
- Officials have begun negotiations on an ambitious India–Bahrain trade agreement and agreed to work toward opening talks on a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement.
- India–Qatar trade totaled USD 14.08 billion in 2023–24, while Bahrain–India trade reached about USD 1.64 billion in 2024–25 with roughly 332,000 Indian nationals residing in Bahrain.