Amar Sinha Outlines Outreach Activities, Trade and Security as Focus of India-Africa Relations

Against the background of the recent visits of Indian leaders to Africa and the third India-Africa Forum Summit held in New Delhi last year, Secretary (Economic Relations), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Shri Amar Sinha, today underlined the more frequent and higher level exchanges between India and Africa, their deepening co-operation in areas of food security, energy, trade, investment, and maritime security, as examples of the new dimensions of India-Africa cooperation.

Shri Sinha was delivering a talk on ‘India's Approach to Africa: What is New?’ organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in partnership with the African Studies Association on August 23, 2016.

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