new delhi pm narendra modi entered the last leg of his threenation tour on sunday landing in muscat to visit indias closest ally in the region omanbefore he flew on to muscat the pm wrapping up a state visit to the uae reiterated strong cooperation on combating terrorism and a defence partnership that will see the indian navy conducting an exercise in the gulf watersaddressing the world government summit in dubai modi highlighted the importance of assimilating technology with governance to ensure equitable growth a key message relating to his governments programmes promoting inclusive growth through banking and dbthe also met sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum the vicepresident and prime minister of the uae and the ruler of dubaia joint statement issued at the end of modis visit focused substantially on a joint approach to tackling terrorism and radicalisation indian institutions will cooperate with sawab and hedayah of the uae two entities that are actively addressing radical thoughts and actions at the level of religious places schools and among the youthwith defence and security moving up in importance the joint statement said joint defence cooperation committee jdcc formed under the existing defence cooperation agreement has been meeting regularly the two leaders welcomed the decision taken during the latest round of jdcc held in new delhi in december 2017 to conduct the first bilateral naval exercise during 2018 this is the first time indian navy will be exercising in the gulf going beyond the arabian sea modi told his audience that india aspired to assume leadership position in artificial intelligence nanotechnology cyber security and cloud computingmodi also launched a project for construction of the first hindu temple in abu dhabi describing the holy place as a catalytic agent of humanity and harmony that will become a medium of indias identity he laid the foundation stone for the swaminarayan temple to be built on 55000 sqm of land on the abu dhabidubai highway keeping local religious sentiments in mind while making it a place of worship for all manner of hindus whatever their chosen deity i would like to request all those associated with the construction of the temple that the rulers here have shown so much respect for india they have been proud of indias cultural history now its our responsibility that there is no mistake on our part he told the gathering modi asked people associated with construction of the temple and also worshippers not to cause any harm to others this is my expectation from you he added