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India, UAE sign Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) during Prime Minister of India’s visit

Posted 14 Feb 2024

Updated 22 Mar 2024

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  • BITs between two countries aim to promote and protect foreign private investments in each other’s territories.
    • UAE has become the country with which India has signed both Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and BIT.
    • Earlier, India has signed CEPA with Japan and South Korea also and BIT with Belarus.
      • CEPA covers negotiation on trade in services and investment, and other areas of economic partnership like Intellectual property rights etc.

 

  • Other Key Agreements
    • Inter-governmental Framework Agreement concerning Cooperation for Empowerment and Operation of India-Middle East-Europe (IMEC) Economic Corridor.
      • IMEC calls for a sea-land connectivity project linking India with West Asia and Europe.
    • MoU on Development of National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) to build Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat.
    • Agreement on interlinking of instant payment platforms - UPI (India) and AANI (UAE) and domestic debit/credit cards - RuPay (India) with JAYWAN (UAE).
      • This will facilitate seamless cross-border transactions and enhance universal acceptance of RuPay across UAE.
    • Cooperation Protocol between National Library and Archives of UAE and National Archives of India for restoration and preservation of archival material.

 

India- UAE Relations 

  • Energy:  Recently, both countries signed long term contract for supply of LNG.
  • Economic:  UAE is India's second-largest export destination, and third-largest trading partner with total trade stands at $85 billion.
  • Defense:  Conduct joint military exercise Desert Cyclone.
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