Meeting Most Of The World - Modi Government's Foreign Policy Overdrive

President Pranab Mukherjee has been doing his bit too. He went to Vietnam in September and recently he visited Norway and Finland and interacted with the leadership, helping to boost India's presence in the Arctic Council bloc. And he visits Bhutan later this week.

Modi's ever-busy foreign minister Sushma Swaraj has been reaching out and visiting a number of countries. Among neighbours, she has visited Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Afghanistan and is slated to visit Sri Lanka soon. She is currently visiting Mauritius and would touch base with the Maldives on her way back.

Sushma Swaraj has also attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, interacting with the important Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan besides Russia and China. Iran and Mongolia were present there as observers, while Belarus, Turkey and Sri Lanka are dialogue partners and Turkmenistan is a guest.

She has also visited Bahrain, Tajikistan, Singapore, Vietnam and Myanmar and earlier this month visited the UK. She is slated to visit the UAE later this month.

India was to host all the 54 countries of the African Union at the India-African Union Forum Summit in December in Gurgaon, but due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa the meet has been put off for the time being.

Oman's Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah was the first foreign dignitary to meet with the Modi government in early June, soon after it assumed power.
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