From 17 to 20 March 2025, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braže, while on a working visit in India (Delhi and Bengaluru), will meet with the Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and other Indian officials, speak in a high-level conference, the Raisina Dialogue 2025, and a NATO, ORF, Konrad Adenauer Foundation seminar, as well as carrying out a business cooperation programme together with a group of Latvian entrepreneurs.
Baiba Braže will take part in the India Europe Business Exchange organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and lead a programme of a group of Latvian businesses in Bengaluru, at which Indian partners will be introduced to Latvia’s achievements in the fields of information and communication technologies, space industry, and innovation.
On her visit to India, Foreign Minister Baiba Braže is accompanied by a group of businesspeople organized by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia and representing the information and communication technologies, space, medical, and chemical industry sectors.
Together with a group of Latvian entrepreneurs, the Minister will meet with the leadership of the prominent Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bengaluru, where representatives from the Latvian space industry will present Latvia’s interests and discuss concrete cooperation opportunities.
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- The EU is India’s largest trading partner. Latvia and India cooperate in the fields of education, culture and art, and the ways of expanding bilateral legal framework are currently being discussed.
- The Raisina Dialogue is an annual multilateral high-level conference that was first held in 2016. Since then, its scope and influence have grown significantly, bringing together nearly 2,000 high-level participants from more than 100 countries, with about 3 million following online. The conference takes its name from Raisina Hill in central Delhi, housing India’s most important government buildings and the Presidential Palace.
- Bilateral relations between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of India (in Latvian)