Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 28: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit the Republic of Cyprus and Austria from December 29 to January 3, an official statement said on Wednesday.
The minister will be in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) from December 29 to December 31, 2022, according to a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). India and Cyprus have had diplomatic ties for 60 years as of this year.
Jaishankar will meet with RoC Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides during his visit, and he will also speak with Annita Demetriou, the Speaker of the House. Additionally, he will speak to the nation’s business and investment community and engage with the Indian diaspora.
According to the release, the external affairs minister (EAM) will meet Alexander Schallenberg, Austria’s Federal Minister for European and International Affairs.
In 2023, India and Austria will celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations, making this the first EAM-level visit from India to Austria in the previous 27 years. The two ministers had met three times this year on the fringes of major conferences in Munich, Bratislava, and New York, according to the MEA. Schallenberg had visited India in March 2022.
Jaishankar will meet with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer during his visit, as well as the Indian diaspora. He will meet Rafael Mariano Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General (IAEA), separately in Vienna.
The EAM will also hold Slavkov meetings with the foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavsky, the Slovak Republic, Rastislav Kacer, and Austria, Federal Minister Schallenberg. The statement also stated that regional and international issues would be the main topics of discussion.
