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

PARIS: 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.