Thursday, March 27, 2008

Trilateral meet on climate change


New Delhi: Senior officials and academics from Russia, India and China will meet here this week in the first-ever ‘Track One and a Half’ interaction between the three countries since the trilateral dialogue process started in 2002.

Hosted by the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Institute of Chinese Studies in Delhi, the three-day seminar on the “evolution of geo-political strategic
trends” will discuss climate change, the current international situation and prospects for trilateral economic cooperation.

Inaugurating the seminar on Thursday, N. Ravi, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, said the meeting was the outcome of the decision taken by the Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China in 2007 to convene a joint meeting of officials and scholars to examine ways of taking the trilateral process forward in different areas.
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