India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Saudi Arabia from April 2 as part of a three-nation trip that begins on March 30.

He will first visit Belgium for India-EU Summit and then travel to Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit from March 31 before his two-day bilateral visit to Saudi Arabia, said an Indian Express report.

In Saudi Arabia, he will hold talks with the Saudi leadership on key regional and bilateral issues, including trade and energy.

His visit, which comes nearly six years after last Indian Prime Ministerial visit to Riyadh, assumes significance given the current regional situation and strained ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another strategically important country for India, said the report.

Apart from being India’s largest supplier of crude oil, accounting for almost one fifth of its need, it is also India’s fourth largest trading partner. Saudi Arabia also has the largest Indian diaspora.