NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will
visit Palestine
during a brief
tour of the Middle East, the foreign ministry said on Monday, just weeks after hosting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
Modi will
meet Palestinian president Mahmoud
Abbas in an overture seen as India?s effort to balance its decades-old support for the occupied territories against its growing closeness to Israel. The Indian premier will
visit Ramallah first on his three-day
tour of the region between February 9 and 12, which will also take in Oman and the United Arab Emirates. Foreign ministry official B. Bala Bhaskar said Modi?s
visit to Palestine would be his first, though the Indian premier has met
Abbas on three previous occasions.
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