India’s Foreign Minister on a four-day official visit to Tanzania

India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is on a four-day official visit to Tanzania, which kicked off on Wednesday, July 5, in Zanzibar.

While in Tanzania, Dr. Jaishankar will be in Zanzibar on Wednesday and Thursday, where he will visit a water supply project funded by a Government of India line of credit.

Earlier today, he paid a courtesy call to Zanzibar's President Hussein Mwinyi at State House Zanzibar where the two discussed various issues.

He will also attend a reception onboard the Indian Naval Ship Trishul, which has docked in Zanzibar, later on Thursday. It is, however, not clear whether the ship will be heading to Dar port as well.

On Friday, according to the timetable, Dr. Jaishankar will be in Dar es Salaam, where he will co-chair the 10th India-Tanzania Joint Commission Meeting with his Tanzanian counterpart, Dr. Stergomena Tax.

During the visit, he will also meet with the members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for India and inaugurate an India-Tanzania business meeting.

Dr. Jaishankar will also address the Indian diaspora in Tanzania and inaugurate the bust of Swami Vivekananda in Dar es Salaam.

The visit is meant to strengthen India and Tanzania's long-standing partnership as trade between the two nations reaches an impressive annual volume of $6.4 billion, according to Government of India statistics.

Further solidifying their relationship, the Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) recently convened in Arusha on June 28–29, 2023, where both countries agreed to a comprehensive 5-year roadmap for defence collaboration encompassing various initiatives, ranging from capacity building to defence technology.