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June 30, 2000   

        

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India's improving relations with Israel are highlighted by the arrival Friday of Jaswant Singh, the first Indian foreign minister to visit since diplomatic ties were established in 1992.

 

Singh's four-day trip follows one earlier this month by Home Minister L.K. Advani in what the New Delhi government has described as sustained high level political contacts with Israel.

 

India's largest minority population is Muslim and relations with Israel deteriorated after the 1967 war between Israel and surrounding Arab states.

      

But during the five years following establishment of diplomatic ties, Israel became the seventh largest investor in India by 1997, with 170 joint ventures, concentrating on agriculture and water management.

 

Soon after his arrival in Tel Aviv, Singh will go straight to Gaza to meet with Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority's foreign minister, Nabeef Shaath to discuss the Middle East peace process.

 

Singh is to have "indepth discussions" with Israeli President Ezer Weizman, Prime Minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister David Levy, the Indian External Affairs Ministry said.

 

In Tel Aviv, Singh will inaugurate the dlrs 1.25 million Nehru Library and Gandhi Students' Activities Center, to which India has contributed books and money.

 

Singh's program includes a visit to the Gaza cemetery where 32 Indian peacekeeping soldiers are buried, the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and a nearby Indian hospice run by Sheikh Munir Ansari

from the Indian town of Sharanpur.

 


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