India–Syria relations
Bilateral visits

India–Syria relations

Section Title: Bilateral visits
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Bilateral visits

Title	Name	Nationality	Year	Reason

President	Shukri al-Quwatli	Syrian	17 January 1957	State visit

Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian	14 July 1957	State visit

President	Hafez Al Assad	Syrian	1978 & 1983	State visit

Vice-President	Zuhier Masharqa	Syrian	1991

Foreign Minister	Farouk Al- Shara	Syrian	1998

Law Minister	Arun Jaitley	Indian	January 2000

Human Resources Development Minister	Murali Manohar Joshi	Indian	June 2000	Funeral of Hafez Al-Assad

Deputy Prime Minister	Khalid Raad	Syrian	July 2000

Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister	Farouk Al- Shara	Syrian	August 2002

Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Indian	November 2003	State

Deputy Foreign Minister	Farukh Taha	Syrian	April 2006

Industry Minister	Fouad Issa al-Jonni	Syrian	January 2007	CII Business Partnership Summit, Bengaluru

Minister of Petroleum	Murli Deora	Indian	April 2007	With MDs of major Public Sector Undertakings in the oil and gas sector on an exploratory bilateral visit (also first visit by a Cabinet Minister of an Indian economic ministry)

Foreign Minister	Walid Al Mouallem	Syrian	August 2007

Deputy Prime Minister	Abdullah Dardari	Syrian	January 2008	Ministerial and business delegation, including Ministers of Electricity, Higher Education and Planning to attend the 1st session of the Syria-India Joint Commission and the CII Partnership Summit, Gurgaon.

President	Bashar Al-Assad	Syrian	June 2008	State visit

Deputy Foreign Minister	Ahmed Arnous	Syrian	February 2010	Accompanied by the General Manager of the Syrian Investment Agency, Ahmad Abdul Aziz, visited Delhi to attend the 2nd Indo-Arab Investment Project Conclave organised by CII.

Commerce and Industry Minister	Anand Sharma	Indian	June 2010	Co-Chair the 2nd Session of the India-Syria Joint Commission

Sentence(s)

On 14 July 1957, India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, visited.

final_sentence: On 14 July 1957, India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, visited.