India, UAE Want To Use Their Relationship To Shape The Changing World: EAM S. Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar opened the India Global Forum 2022 in UAE on Monday. The IGF is a five-day gala event that brings together leading political, business, and cultural personalities from India, the United Arab Emirates, and across the world. "When I look at the return of history and the relationships which will go forward in the coming days, I certainly would rank the India-UAE relationship very high in that," Jaishankar said in his keynote address.

Jaishankar cited UAE's role as India's third-largest trade partner and the home for the most number of Indian ex-pats as the reason behind his optimistic outlook on the two nations' relationship. "Whether we are talking people or whether we are talking business, this country has a particular salience in our perspectives," he added.

The external affairs minister described India and UAE as two countries who want to use their history and existing relationship to not just survive in a changing world but also to shape it.