The foreign ministers of India, France, and Australia will hold a trilateral dialogue in the national capital of India, Delhi on April 13.
The trilateral dialogues will discuss steps to strengthen maritime security and collaborate on shared challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.
The meeting will be held on the margins of a conference on geopolitics, Raisina Dialogue, which will also be attended by heads of state of Rwanda and Denmark apart from 10 foreign ministers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also expected to attend the opening and closing sessions of the event.
French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian will begin his two-day visit to India on April 12 evening. His meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne is scheduled for the following day. Drian is also slated to call on PM Modi and other top Indian leaders on April 13.
India, France, and Australia are on the same page on addressing the challenges in the Indo-Pacific. In recent days, France has come around to acknowledging the central role that New Delhi can play in the shared commitment to freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.
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