Former US president Bill Clinton will arrive in New Delhi Wednesday as a special UN envoy on a three-day trip to oversee relief work for tsunami victims.

This would be his fourth trip to India in five years and his first to the tsunami-ravaged parts of the country since UN Secretary General Kofi Annan named him an envoy to oversee tsunami relief worldwide.

Clinton will meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhim among other leaders on Wednesday, according to local reports.

He will also meet with NGOs and activists connected with AIDS awareness and cure programs.

Clinton will then visit Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu state, Friday morning and travel to Nagapattinam, 400 km south, by a chopper to oversee the relief and rehabilitation work being undertaken by his family's William J. Clinton Foundation. Nagapattinam is the worst-hit area in India.

India was the third-most badly hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami after Indonesia and Sri Lanka, with over 10,000 fatalities. Within India, Tamil Nadu bore maximum death and destruction.

Clinton will also travel to Sri Lanka on May 28, followed by a visit to the Maldivian capital Male and the country's Kaafu Guraidhoo islands on May 29. In the Maldives, he will focus on the "adopt an island" initiative, according to the reports.

Source: Xinhua