The 13th Foreign Office Consultations between India, Greece were held in Athens on June 14. The consultations were co-chaired by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Secretary (West), Sanjay Verma and Greece's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Haris Lalacos.
This is the first meeting after nine people were killed after an explosion at an illegal firecracker factory in West Bengal's East Midnapore district on May 16.
As per the police, the accused individual, Bivash Sarkar, allegedly reached out to the General Manager (GM) via email with the intention of securing a railway tender for the route connecting Rampurhat and Swadinpur in Bengal.
During the business event, both leaders agreed to set a target for bilateral trade from the present 32 crores to a billion euros by the end of the decade, Ministry of External Affairs Secretary-West Sanjay Verma said in a media briefing.
Addressing a special briefing on the President's visit to Suriname and Serbia, MEA's Secretary West Sanjay Verma said, "Well, we are aware of the recent disturbances in Kosovo, which is at the extreme southern tip of Serbia. We have no reason at this point of time, as I say this, to be co
Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma visited Moscow on May 3-4 for the JWG on Counter Terrorism and India-Russia bilateral consultations on UN and multilateral issues, and held discussions, the Ministry of External Affairs said in an official release today.
"12th India-Estonia FOC held in New Delhi, led by Secy (West) @SanjayVermalFS & @KyllikeSillaste, Undersecretary for Political Affairs, MoFA, Estonia," MEA Official Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted on Wednesday.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma and Ukraine's First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova discussed bilateral engagements.
"At this point in time, I think what should be uppermost in the mind is the G20 mantra, 'One Earth, One Family, One Future' and in all of this, the present becomes a testing ground on how we as humans come together... Sanctions don't cover such humanitarian challenges," MEA Secretary (Wes
"We have also set up a control room in Adana. The consul general from Istanbul and other officials from our mission in Ankara are all stationed on the ground in the affected areas," the Ministry of External Affairs Ministry said
Secretary (West) Ministry of External Affairs, Sanjay Verma inaugurated the third Disarmament and International Security Fellowship Programme at the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service in New Delhi on Monday.