New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar will attend the 7th Indian Ocean Conference which is being held in Perth, Australia, on February 9-10, a government statement said on Thursday.
The Indian Ocean Conference is a flagship consultative forum for countries in the Indian Ocean region, organised annually by the Ministry of External Affairs, in association with the India Foundation.
The theme of this edition of the conference is "Towards a Stable and Sustainable Indian Ocean".
The Ministry said Jaishankar would address the inaugural session of the conference, along with Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Sri Lanka, Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, and Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Forei...