“Confident that the consulate will further deepen the India-UAE trade and investment relationship and that it would also strengthen people-to-people ties.”
— V Muraleedharan, India’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
The UAE opened a new consulate office in Hyderabad, its fourth mission in India, on June 13. The UAE embassy is in Delhi and there are consulates in Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram.
The mission was inaugurated by India’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs V Muraleedharan, and his Emirati counterpart Ali Al-Sayegh.
Muraleedharan took to Twitter following the ceremony to say he was “confident that the consulate will further deepen the India-UAE trade and investment relationship”, and that it would also strengthen people-to-people ties.
Hyderabad-based Emigrants Welfare Forum last year advocated the inauguration of the mission to help facilitate hundreds of thousands of Indians traveling to the UAE from the region
The opening of the consulate was a long-awaited development and Sunjay Sudhir, Indian Ambassador to the UAE, told Arab News it was a “significant development” that will help build better connections between the UAE and the local government. He went on to say that the new consulate will “increase people-to-people contact and be a good reference point for the Indian diaspora from the state”.
Hyderabad-based Emigrants Welfare Forum last year advocated the inauguration of the mission to help facilitate hundreds of thousands of Indians traveling to the UAE from the region.
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