India, Feb. 3 -- Egypt's foreign minister Badr Abdelatty will visit India this week for the first bilateral strategic dialogue, during which the two sides are expected to review their relations and discuss the situation in West Asia, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

This will be Abdelatty's first visit to India since he was appointed foreign minister last year. The strategic dialogue with his counterpart S Jaishankar is a follow-up to the decision by the two countries to upgrade their relationship to a strategic partnership in 2023.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's visit to India in 2023, when he was the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations, gave a major fillip to bilateral ties and the two sides had deci...