Army Chief General Dwivedi embarks on two-day visit to UAE

Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi connected Sunday (January 4, 2026) near for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) connected a two-day sojourn to research ways to fortify bilateral subject cooperation.

Gen. Dwivedi is scheduled to clasp wide-ranging talks with apical subject brass of the influential Gulf nation. “The sojourn underscores a shared committedness to deepening communal understanding, enhancing practice successful areas of communal involvement and advancing bilateral defence practice betwixt the 2 nations,” the Indian Army said connected societal media.

Gen. Dwivedi’s travel is taking spot weeks aft the Gulf nation’s Commander of the Presidential Guard, Major General Ali Saif Humaid Alkaabi, visited India. The Army Chief’s sojourn comes successful the midst of fast-paced developments successful the Gulf region, including escalating tensions betwixt the UAE and Saudi Arabia implicit the concern successful Yemen.

The subject practice betwixt India and the UAE witnessed important momentum aft the visit to that country by past Army Chief Gen M.M. Naravane successful December 2020. It was the first-ever sojourn to the UAE by a caput of the Indian Army.