New Delhi: Giving a boost to India's 'Look East' policy, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee leaves New Delhi on October 5, on a seven-day visit to Indonesia and Thailand during which three major agreements on combating terrorism and enhancing economic co-operation would be signed between New Delhi and the powerful 10-nation Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Vajpayee would first go to Bali in Indonesia to attend the second India-ASEAN Summit on October 8, the first having been held in Cambodia in 2002.

In the second leg of his two-nation tour, the Prime Minister would fly to Bangkok the same evening. He would hold wide-ranging talks with his Thai counterpart Thaksin Shinawatra on a host of issues including the fight against terrorism, UN reforms and situations in Iraq, Middle East and Afghanistan.

Thailand is attaching great significance to Vajpayee's four-day visit, the first Prime Ministerial one in ten years with the last being by P V Narasimha Rao in 1993.

Strengthening their bilateral ties, India and Thailand would sign five accords including those on co- operation in agricultural science, tourism, biotechnology and on exemption of visa requirements for official passport holders.

The two sides would also ink a Framework Agreement to usher in a Free Trade Accord relating to goods, services and trade facilitation. During his stay, Vajpayee would address a special session of the Thai Parliament, the first-ever by any foreign leader.

PTI