Riyadh, February 25: Major streets of oil-rich Saudi Arabia’s capital have been decked up with Indian flags to welcome Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is scheduled to arrive here late this week on an important official visit to the Kingdom.
Senior officials from the two countries are busy making arrangements to host the Indian political and business leaders as well as fine-tune several agreements to be signed during the visit, the first by an Indian premier since 1982.
“The visit of Prime Minister Singh, which takes place four years after the Saudi King Abdullah’s visit to New Delhi, will boost Saudi-Indo relations further and change the dynamics of our strategic ties,” Saudi Ambassador to India Faisal H Trad was quoted by Arab News as saying.
–PTI