Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India gives utmost importance to its relationship with Maldives while receiving the Nishan Izzuddeen medal, the country's highest honour accorded to foreign dignitaries, here on Saturday."India gives utmost importance to its relationship with Maldives. We want to have a strong partnership with each other. India is willing to help Maldives in every way possible. May the friendship between India and Maldives last forever," the Prime Minister said at the event.Modi is currently on a two-day visit to Maldives and Sri Lanka, which is the first bilateral engagement the leader is undertaking after being sworn-in as the Prime Minister for a second term on May 30."I am glad to have the honour to visit your beautiful country as my first overseas trip after being elected for the second term," Modi said, thanking "close friend" Maldives for according a grand welcome to him.Thanking the country for bestowing its highest honour upon him, the Prime Minister ...
