India - Kenya Bilateral Relations

India-Kenya Bilateral Relations  India and Kenya are maritime neighbours with robust and multi-faceted partnership, marked by regular high-level visits, increasing trade and investment and extensive people to people contacts. Political Relations: India established the office of Commissioner for British East Africa resident in Nairobi in 1948. Following Kenyan independence in December 1963, a High Commission was established. India has had an Assistant High Commission in Mombasa. High level bilateral visits: 1. Vice President Dr. S Radhakrishnan visited Kenya in July 1956. 2. Smt. Indira Gandhi attended the Kenyan Independence celebrations in 1963. PM Indira  Gandhi visited Kenya in 1970 and 1981. 3. PM Morarji Desai visited Kenya in 1978. 4. President Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy visited Kenya in 1981. 5. President Moi visited India for a bilateral visit in 1981 and for the NAM Summit in  1983. 6. The State visit of PM Narendra