Raisina Security Dialogue

2023 MAR 7

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Why in news?

  • India has held the second Raisina Security Dialogue conference.

About Raisina Security Dialogue:

  • Raisina Security Dialogue is a conference of intelligence and security chiefs and top officials from around the world.
  • Raisina Security Dialogue is organized by the Research and Analysis Wing(R&AW) and the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS).
  • The conference was held for the first time in 2022, a day before the start of Raisina Dialogue.
    • The focus of the discussions of the dialogue was largely focused on global security which encompassed counterterrorism, radicalisation, drugs trafficking, and illegal arms smuggling among others.
  • The conference is modelled on the lines of the Munich Security Conference and Singapore’s Shangri­La Dialogue.

About Raisina Dialogue:

  • Since its inception in 2016, Raisina Dialogue has become India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-strategy.
  • It is organized by the Ministry of External Affairs in collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).
  • Theme for 2023: “Provocation, Uncertainty, Turbulence: Lighthouse in the Tempest”

PRACTICE QUESTION:

With reference to Raisina Dialogue, recently seen in news, consider the following statements:

1. It is a global conference on international affairs

2. It is hosted by United Nations Security Council

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer