New Delhi: German President Johannes Rau arrived in Delhi on March 2 on a five-day visit to India to carry forward the new impetus in bilateral relations and hold consultations with Indian leaders on the Iraq crisis.

Rau, who is leading a high-power delegation, will on March 2 hold wide-ranging discussions with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on the entire gamut of bilateral relations besides exchanging perceptions on important regional and international developments.

He will call on President A P J Abdul Kalam and have meetings with External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, besides attending some business functions during his stay in Delhi.

The Presidential delegation includes Kerstin Muller, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hermann Scheer, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in Bundestag and Sebastian Edathy, chairman of the Indo-German Parliamentary Group.

PTI