MELBOURNE: Senior Officials’ India-France-Australia Trilateral Dialogue

MELBOURNE: India-France-Australia Trilateral Senior
Officials’ Meeting was held last week. The Indian side was led by Shri Sandeep
Chakravorty, Joint Secretary (Europe West) while the French side was led by Mr.
Bertrand Lortholary, Director (Asia and Oceania) and the Australian side was
led by Mr. Gary Cowan, First Assistant Secretary (North and South Asia
Division) and Mr. John Geering, First Assistant Secretary (Europe and Latin
America Division).

The three sides took stock of the progress made on the outcomes of the Foreign
Secretary level Trilateral Dialogue held in September 2020, including Maritime
Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR), Blue Economy,
Protection of Marine Global Commons, Combatting Illegal, Unregulated and
Unreported (IUU) Fishing and Cooperation in Multilateral Fora. They also
discussed the next steps to be taken for furthering trilateral cooperation in
the Indo-Pacific region.