The Diplomat
The Indian ambassador to Spain, Dinesh Kumar Patnaik, will today inaugurate the Foreign Policy Seminar at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, in Madrid, which in this ninth edition will have India as a guest country.
Organized by the Department of International Relations (CHS) of the University, the Seminar will feature the participation of national and international experts who “will analyze the rich and complex evolution of Indian foreign doctrine from different perspectives, both thematic and geographical,” as reported. organizers. Other aspects will also be addressed, such as the economic and cultural projection of the country, its relations with the main global actors and its vision and objectives in the reconfiguration of the international system.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Indian Embassy in Madrid and the Spain-India Council Foundation (SICF) will participate in the event, as well as the Spain-India Observatory, the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary Studies on India, Casa de la India, CIE Automotive and the vice president of the Indian think tank Observer Research Foundation, as reported by the SICF in a press release.
“The Asian giant has burst into international leadership in 2023, holding the presidencies of the G20 and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and positioning itself as the fifth largest economy in the world,” highlighted the University of Comillas. “A key country in the new regional order in the Indo-Pacific, it is being courted by the US and the EU as a preferred partner in the face of the rise of China,” it added.
Enrique Sanz Giménez-Rico, magnificent rector of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, will participate in the welcome event, along with Susanne M. Cadera, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Comillas; Emilio Sáenz-Francés, director of the Department of International Relations of Comillas, and Mario López Areu, of the Department of International Relations and organizer of the seminar.
The opening speech will be given by the ambassador, Dinesh Kumar Patnaik. After holding two round tables on India’s soft power: economy and culture and on India’s bilateral and regional relations in the world, the event will conclude with a speech by Carlos Moreno Blanco, general director for North America, Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focused on relations between Spain, the EU and India.
