New Delhi [India], Feb 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-nation tour, reached Palestine this afternoon, making him the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the west Asian country. PM Modi is scheduled to hold discussions with the country's president and reaffirm India's support for the Palestinian people and the development of Palestine. The Prime Minister has a packed travel plan this weekend with visits to the UAE and Oman, before he returns home on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay a wreath at the memorial for the iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a close friend of India who headed the Palestine Liberation Organization and later the Palestinian National Authority till his death in 2004.

PM Modi will visit Oman for the first time as prime minister and will hold talks with the Sultan of Oman and other key leaders. He would also interact with leading businesspersons of Oman on developing stronger economic and business links with India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays wreath at Mausoleum of Late President Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. On Friday, PM Modi reached Jordan's capital Amman where he met King Abdullah II. He took a chopper ride to Palestine's capital Ramallah. More than nine million Indians work and live in the Gulf region, of which about one third live in the UAE alone. In Oman, they constitute the largest expatriate community.