Navtej Sarna: As you know the visit of the Prime Minister of Bahrain H.H Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa is underway.This afternoon the visiting Prime Minister held discussions with our Prime Minister as well as delegationlevel talks. Prime Minister hosted a lunch in his honour and five agreements were signed, the details of whichyou may have already have got otherwise these are available. These are: MoU on Foreign Office Consultations,Extradition Treaty, Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, Agreement on Mutual LegalAssistance in Judicial, Commercial and Civil Matters, and Bilateral Investment, Promotion & ProtectionAgreement. So the stage is set for closer cooperation between the two countries in matters related to securityand law enforcement as well as trade and investments.
Besides this, you have also got the statement that the Prime Minister has issued on the Next Steps inStrategic Partnership with USA. You would have seen a similar statement issued by President Bush. Copies ofboth are available in case some of you have not got these.