New Delhi: India recently organized the second conference of intelligence and security chiefs and top officials from around the world, called the Raisina Security Dialogue, which saw participation from over 26 countries.
“India is trying to make its presence felt in bringing together global intelligence agencies for exchanges on issues of common concern. The focus of the discussions was largely on global security which encompassed counterterrorism, radicalisation, drug trafficking, and illegal arms smuggling, among others,” an official source with knowledge of the matter said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval addressed the conference, which is modelled on the lines of the Munich Security Conference, the 59 th edition of which took place from February 17 to 19, 2023, and Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue.
It was a broad-based discussion and shows the global confidence in India, said an official from one of the participating countries. While the U.S. was absent, intelligence chiefs from the U.K., France, Japan and Bahrain were among those present.
Sources said that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William Burns was in India two weeks earlier from February 16 to 17. He also travelled to Sri Lanka recently.
The security conference was organised by the country’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) that reports to Doval.
The conference was held for the first time in April 2022, a day before the start of Raisina Dialogue, India’s flagship conference on “geopolitics and geo-strategy” organised by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in collaboration with Observer Research Foundation (ORF). The eighth edition this year was held from March 2-4.
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