Venkaiah Naidu asks strategic community to focus on post-COVID world and its implications for India
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The Vice-President, who’s the ex-officio president of the Indian Council of World Affairs, made theSE remarks on the nineteenth assembly of its governing council
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday described the coronavirus pandemic as probably the most severe problem that has confronted humanity in residing reminiscence as he requested the Indian strategic community to focus on the world after Covid and its implications for the nation.
The vice chairman, who’s the ex-officio president of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), made these remarks on the 19thmeeting of its governing council.
Earlier within the day, he had chaired the 20thmeeting of the governing physique of the ICWA.
According to an official assertion, former secretary (East) within the Ministry of External Affairs Vijay Thakur Singh was appointed as the following director basic of ICWA on the assembly because the time period of incumbent T C A Raghavan ends on July 23.
The regulation governing ICWA prescribes a three-year time period for the DG and ex-officio member secretary, the assertion stated.
Addressing the governing council assembly nearly from Hyderabad, Naidu famous that the evaluation of the worldwide affect of the pandemic has been a cross-cutting theme at ICWA in all its deliberations and areas of analysis.
He appreciated ICWA’s actions by way of the previous yr however the disruptions of the pandemic.
In the previous seven months, other than its analysis actions, ICWA organised a complete of 28 occasions which have been a mixture of conferences, panel discussions, lectures, track-II dialogues and e book discussions.
Mr. Naidu noticed that other than its conventional focus on space research in its programme actions, the ICWA has made latest efforts to focus on broad themes resembling Mahatma Gandhi and the world, maritime affairs, advancing reformed multilateralism, gender inside worldwide relations and diplomacy, and contribution of Indian troopers within the World War I.
He famous that the Council had made full use of digital platforms through the pandemic which has offered alternatives for increasing its outreach.
Mr. Naidu additionally unveiled a e book, ‘Sapru House: A Story of Institutions Building in World Affairs’.
ICWA is housed in Sapru House.
In response to his name to undertake analysis and specialised work in world affairs aimed on the lay reader, the vice chairman stated, ICWA has commissioned a brief monograph on India’s bilateral relations with Bangladesh written in easy language and with none technicalities. He stated comparable monographs may additionally be taken up for different nations.
The digital assembly was attended by three vice presidents of the Council — External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, parliamentary committee on exterior affairs chairperson P.P. Chaudhary and Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar.
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