Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Oman ruler King Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Muscat on Sunday.

Memorandum of Understating or MoU was signed between India’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI) and State General Reserve Fund or SGRF of Sultanate of Oman, to set up the India-Oman Joint Investment Fund.

In the first ever visit by an Indian prime minister to Qatar, the prime minister was received at Doha International Airport by Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud.

India and Qatar signed two agreements on defence and security cooperation. The agreements were signed following a meeting between Singh and Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabor Al-Thani.