Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar speaks at the Raisina Dialogue 2024, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI Russia is a power with an enormous tradition of statecraft and it is turning more towards Asia or non-West parts of the world, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on February 23, delving into current geopolitical … Read more
A leading U.S. official has said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is “open” to deepening ties with India. Speaking at a virtual press briefing on Friday, Ambassador Julianne Smith, U.S. envoy to NATO, said Russia should withdraw from Ukraine and that NATO is watching China-Russia relation in the backdrop of Russia’s continued military operation … Read more
The government is not in a “crazy rush” to sell everything and it will continue to have a presence in four strategic sectors, including telecom, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. In strategic sectors, a bare minimum presence of the existing public sector commercial enterprises at the holding company level will be retained under … Read more
This year’s Raisina Dialogue, India’s premier multilateral foreign policy and geo-economics conference, will focus on six pillars covering a range of contemporary issues from democracy to technology to global health to the Indo-Pacific region. The seventh edition of the conference, hosted by the external affairs ministry in collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation, will be … Read more
Afghanistan’s neighbours must contribute to peace, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar asserted on Friday without naming Pakistan, and pointed out that describing India’s role in the landlocked country as being directed against Pakistan undermines New Delhi’s efforts in that nation. “Afghanistan needs a double peace -peace within the country and peace around the country,” Jaishankar … Read more
Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises, was the quote from Jean Monnet that the Polish Foreign Minister used to open his speech during the 6th edition of the international Raisina Dialogue conference on Tuesday. Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau’s speech was part of … Read more