New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday welcomed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to India, who’s the chief visitor and the keynote speaker on the inaugural session of the eighth Raisina Dialogue.
Earlier, she obtained a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in Delhi.
The multilateral convention, Raisina Dialogue, held yearly in New Delhi can be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Ministry of External Affairs is organising the occasion in collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) from March 2-4.
The convention which is being organised beneath the theme “Provocation, Uncertainty, Turbulence: Lighthouse in the Tempest?”, will witness the participation of representatives from over 100 nations.
The convention which can begin on Thursday will start with an inaugural session from 6:30 – 7:30 pm (IST). An inaugural dinner will comply with this from 7:45 – 9:45 pm which can embrace welcome remarks by Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
There can be keynote addresses by Minister of Health and Family Welfare-Mansukh Mandaviya, Senior Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan-Sachiko Imoto, Member of Parliament, Portuguese National Parliament, Portugal-Ricardo Baptista Leite.
From 10:20 – 11:10 pm on Thursday, there can be a session on ‘Conversations Over Kahwa’ which can be presided over by Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, India- Sanjeev Sanyal, Political Director, Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, Hungary-Balazs Orban, Founder, Her Afghanistan, USA, Mariam Wardak, amongst others.
Day two of the Raisina Dialogue will start with a ministerial remarks session by Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan from 9 – 9:10 am.
This can be adopted by a panel dialogue from 9:10-9:50 am, additional particulars of that are but to be introduced.
There can be one other panel dialogue from 9:50-10:40 am which can be presided over by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Vice-President of the European Commission-Josep Borrell Fontelles, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada-Melanie Joly.
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Hassan Shoukry Selim will preside over a panel dialogue from 11:10-11:50 pm.
At 12 pm on Friday, there can be a dialog between Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov and the Chairman of Observer Research Foundation, Sunjoy Joshi.
From 4:25 – 5:15 pm on Friday, there can be a panel dialogue on the subject ‘Bytes of Promise: How Can Technology Lift Communities?’, which can be presided over by Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs MUM Ali Sabry.
Day three of the Raisina Dialogue, Saturday, will start with Conversations over Breakfast.
At 9:15 am, there can be ministerial remarks by the Minister of State, Ministry of External Affairs, Meenakashi Lekhi.
From 5:10-6 pm on Saturday, there can be a panel dialogue presided over by Croatia’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Gordan Grlic Radman.
A showstopper panel dialogue from 7:10-8 pm can be presided by Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra. This can be adopted by closing dinner discussions.
Over 2,500 contributors can be becoming a member of the dialogue in particular person and the proceedings would attain hundreds of thousands throughout numerous digital platforms.
During the previous eight years, the Raisina Dialogue has grown in stature and profile to ascertain itself as one of many main world conferences on worldwide affairs.
The final version of Raisina Dialogue passed off in Sydney the place External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar referred to as on Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Sydney. (ANI)