Saudi Arabia accounts for almost a quarter of India's total imports of oil of 1.9 million barrels per day. In 2004, New Delhi bought crude worth $6.2 billion from the Kingdom, the report said. Former Indian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, who is a member of the Strategic Studies Center in India, said Saudi-Indian summit talks would focus on security and economic issues. "I am hopeful that the royal visit would have a positive effect," he told Saudi journalists. Member of Parliament Najma Heptullah, who has visited the Kingdom several times, said she was looking forward to the king's state visit with great happiness. Well-known Indian journalist and editor in chief of Asian Age newspaper M.J. Akbar emphasized the significance of Abdullah's visit to India in the light of the Saudi king's important position in the world as an advocate of peace. "I am confident that the visit would have tremendous impact not only on Saudi-Indian relations but on the continent at large," he pointed out.--SPA 10 34 Local Time 07 34 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/320599