India, Pak Foreign ministers in UAE on separate bilateral visits

Days after a prime diplomat from the United Arab Emirates confirmed that the nation was enjoying a job in bringing Delhi and Islamabad to the talks desk, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi are visiting the UAE for what’s being described as separate bilateral visits.
While Jaishankar shall be in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, Qureshi was in Dubai on Saturday on a three-day bilateral go to.
Sources in New Delhi and Islamabad, nonetheless, mentioned there are not any bilateral conferences scheduled to this point between the 2.
This is the second time they are going to be in the identical nation for a go to in lower than three weeks – each had been in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe for the Heart of Asia assembly on March 30.
Jaishankar has been invited to Abu Dhabi by UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
“At the invitation of his counterpart, EAM @DrSJaishankar will be visiting Abu Dhabi on 18th April 2021. His discussions will focus on economic cooperation and community welfare,” MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted Saturday.
Qureshi tweeted, “Good to be in the #UAE and to have met the Pakistan Business Council Dubai for a constructive session on #EconomicDiplomacy. The Pakistani community in UAE continue to play a positive role across all echelons of business & work with great contributions to the development” of Pakistan-UAE ties.
Jaishankar and Qureshi will each meet their UAE counterpart.
Earlier this week, the UAE’s envoy to the US had mentioned that his nation is mediating between India and Pakistan to assist the beighbours attain a “healthy and functional” relationship. Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba mentioned: “We try to be helpful, where we have influence with two different countries, so India-Pakistan was the most recent one.”
He cited media experiences which he mentioned “highlighted the role the UAE played in bringing the Kashmir escalation down and sort of created a ceasefire, hopefully, ultimately leading to restoring diplomats and getting the relationship back to a healthy level”.

In a dialog on Wednesday with former US National Security Advisor H R McMaster below the aegis of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, the UAE envoy, in response to query whether or not his nation was making an attempt to assist the 2 nations have a greater relationship, mentioned: “Absolutely. They might not sort of become best friends, but at least we want to get it to a level where it’s functional, where it’s operational…that’s our goal.”

Officials say India and Pakistan have been “carefully optimistic” of the steps taken in latest months. The February announcement to stick to the ceasefire pact, the Indus Water Treaty talks in March after over two years, and calls for inside Pakistan to import cotton and sugar from India have made the 2 sides take a look at the following steps of engagement.
This official affirmation from the UAE got here the day Reuters reported that prime intelligence officers from India’s R&AW and Pakistan’s ISI held secret talks in Dubai in January in contemporary effort to calm navy tensions over Jammu and Kashmir.