Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet (centre) speaks at the session. (Photo: VNA) The Raisina Dialogue is India’s premier conferenceon geopolitics and geoeconomics committed to addressing the most challengingissues facing the global community.
It is hosted annually by the Observer Research Foundation inpartnership with the Ministry of External Affairs and the Government of India. Thiseffort is supported by a number of institutions, organisations and individuals,who are committed to the mission of the conference.
Themed "Chaturanga: Conflict, Contest,Cooperate, Create," this year’s event took place on February 22 and 23,bringing together 2,500 delegates, including many leaders, senior officials,researchers and scholars from more than 100 countries in and outside theregion.
Addressing a session titled “DesecuritisingDevelopment: Resilience in the Indo-Pacific,” Viet pointed to ongoing “hotspots” and conflicts in the region and the world, along with non-traditionalsecurity challenges, complex developments in the East Sea, and severe climatechange, and unsustainable use of natural resources in the Mekong sub-region,which have posed challenges to sustainable development and efforts to maintainlong-term peace and stability in the region.
The context presents a message that the Indo-Pacificis not only an area of strategic competition between superpowers but also aplace where countries strive for multilateral cooperation for peace and stability,and join hands to settle common challenges, he stressed.
Vietnam and the Association of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN) are committed to building the message by creating aresilient and comprehensive community network, where every country can grow inpeace, stability and sustainable development, while promoting the importance ofmultilateral cooperation, constructive dialogue and prosperity for all, theofficial stressed.
The Raisina Dialogue 2024 further focused on initiativesof the Group of 20 (G20) where India held the 2023 Presidency, and looked intosecurity and economic challenges worldwide.
The participants shared the view on the significanceof cooperation, dialogue, trust building and respect for international law andmultilateralism, including the acceleration of United Nations reform.
Within the framework of the dialogue, Viet hadbilateral meetings with Polish Secretary of State Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski,Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, Secretary-Generalof the European External Action Service Stefano Sannino, and Director-Generalof the Office of National Intelligence of Australia Andrew Shearer.
At the meetings, they touched upon bilateralrelations, as well as regional and international issues of shared concern./.
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