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India PM tours Abu Dhabi's zero-carbon Masdar City

Xinhua, August 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited the environmental Masdar City in Abu Dhabi as part of a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that is aimed at boosting the bilateral ties, official WAM news agency reported.

The Indian premier started his visit to the UAE on Sunday. "Masdar City is an amazing project," Modi said on his twitter account.

Masdar (Arabic for resource), a "zero-carbon" city, hosts a number of environment projects along with branches of local and global technology firms like Germany's Siemens.

Modi will head to Dubai later in the day, where he is expected to speak to 52,000 Indian expatriates in the Dubai international cricket stadium.

Modi's visit marks the first of an Indian head of government to the UAE in 34 years since Indira Gandhi met with former UAE president and the Gulf state's founding father Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan in 1981 in Abu Dhabi.

About 2.6 million Indians live in the Gulf state. Around 45,000 Indian firms operate in the UAE. Endit