India’s Security Engagement with Africa a Vital Part of Foreign Policy: TS Tirumurti

Describing India’s security engagement with Africa as ‘a vital part of our foreign policy’, Shri TS Tirumurti, Secretary (ER) today said that India and the African continent’s engagement in tackling a complex set of security challenges has deepened in the recent past, largely due to an unprecedented impetus to political engagements between the two regions.

Shri Tirumurti was delivering a keynote address at the 4th India-Africa Strategic Dialogue on ‘India and Africa: Deepening the Security Engagement’, organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, on March 27, 2018.

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