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