India, Maldives to sign MoUs on Maldivian hosp, foundation

India and Maldives would be signing two MoUs related to manpower requirements of Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (Male) and for the establishment of India-Maldives Foundation, during the two-day official visit of Maldivian External Affairs Minister Abdulla Shahid starting on Thursday.

Shahid will meet External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who will also host a dinner in his honour. The Maldives foreign minister would be here between September 19-20.

India is engaged in the development of infrastructural facilities in Maldives through its technical and economic assistance programmes. The Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital set up in 1995 with Indian assistance is an example of close ties between the two countries. The MoU will help meet much of Maldives manpower and training needs in the areas of health and medicine.

The MoU on the establishment of the India-Maldives Foundation envisages a corpus of Rs two crore, which would be used by the two countries to undertake a range of activities aimed at bringing the two countries together.

India is also helping in setting up a faculty of hospitality and tourism studies in Maldives.

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Maldives Health minister’s visit India

The Maldives minister of foreign affairs, Mr Abdulla Shahid, arrives here tomorrow (19 Sept 2008) on a two-day visit during which two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) are expected to be signed.
During his visit, Mr Shahid would meet the external affairs minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, who would be hosting a dinner in his honour.

One of the two MOUs concern the manpower requirements of Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH), Male, and the other is for the establishment of the India-Maldives Foundation. n SNS

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