Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will inaugurate the Dialogue through a video message. President of
Rwanda Paul Kagame and Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen will
also join the inaugural session as Chief Guests. Prime Minister of
Australia Scott Morrison will also participate in the conference, in one
of the subsequent sessions.
The 4 day Dialogue will be held
virtually. It is India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and
geoeconomics, held annually since 2016. It is jointly organised by the
Ministry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation. The
theme for the 2021 Edition is "#ViralWorld: Outbreaks, Outliers and Out
of Control".
Over
the course of four days, the Dialogue will have panel conversations on
five thematic pillars - Whose Multilateralism? Reconstructing the UN and
Beyond, Securing and Diversifying Supply Chains, Global ‘Public Bads’:
Holding Actors and Nations to Account, Infodemic: Navigating a
‘No-Truth’ World in the Age of Big Brother and The Green Stimulus:
Investing in Gender, Growth, and Development.
The 2021 Edition will have 50 sessions
with participation of 150 speakers from 50 countries and multilateral
organisations. More than 2000 attendees have pre-registered from over 80
countries and a large number of participants are likely to join the
Dialogue through various social media platforms.
The event will also see the presence of
Former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of
Australia Anthony Abbott and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen
Clark. Foreign Ministers of Portugal, Slovenia, Romania, Singapore,
Nigeria, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Kenya, Chile, Maldives, Iran,
Qatar, and Bhutan will also participate.
In the past six years, the Raisina
Dialogue has grown in stature and profile to emerge as a leading global
conference on international affairs. It attracts leading minds from the
global strategic and policy-making community to discuss broader foreign
policy and strategic issues facing the world.
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Social media is young.
Social media raises questions.
Social media is not satisfied with an answer.
Social media looks at the big picture.
Social media is interested in every detail.
social media is curious.
Social media is free.
Social media is irreplaceable.
But never irrelevant.
Social media is you.
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