RIYADH, 01 January 2022, (TON): Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, India’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, highlighted some of the most important partnerships between the two countries in fields such as medicine, trade, defense, tourism and education, along with the high level of mutual trust that exists.

Sayeed told media "there is a need for international collaboration. There is a commitment by India, globally, to supply vaccines for those countries who don’t have the facilities to manufacture them.”

He also discussed ways in which Saudi Arabia and India have worked together during the pandemic, giving as an example the fact that India is now sending vaccines to the Saudi market, but that when India was having a difficult time during the second wave of the pandemic, the Kingdom sent vaccine supplies to India.

He added “Indian pharmaceutical companies setting up facilities in the Kingdom is in line with the localization aims of Saudi Vision 2030, and will create many job opportunities.”

Turning his attention to trade and commerce, Sayeed said that India remained Saudi Arabia’s second-largest trading partner, after China, during the first nine months of 2021.