Chapter 11 · Global engagement
International engagements
Parliamentary diplomacy on the documented record: official delegations, parliamentary forums and international policy events.
StandardEach engagement lists only the meetings recorded by the Ministry of External Affairs, Indian missions abroad, public broadcasters or established news organisations. Private conversations are not inferred, and no judgement is made about diplomatic impact.
Section 11.1 · Engagement log
Delegations & forums
RecordDelegationGroup I · 2025
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Date24 May – 2 Jun 2025
All-party parliamentary delegation after Operation Sindoor
- Country / region
- Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria
- Purpose
- As stated by the Embassy of India in Algiers, the delegation would “focus on cross-border terrorism” and “highlight India’s decisive and resolute stance on terrorism particularly its fight against Pakistan sponsored terrorism.”
- Delegation
- Led by Baijayant Panda. Members: Nishikant Dubey, S. Phangnon Konyak, Rekha Sharma, Asaduddin Owaisi, Satnam Singh Sandhu and Ghulam Nabi Azad, with former Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. Mr Azad was admitted to hospital in Kuwait and did not complete the tour.
- Documented meetings
- Bahrain: Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa; Shura Council Chairman Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh; think tanks. Kuwait: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sherida Abdullah Saad Al-Maousherji; the Indian community. Saudi Arabia: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir; Shura Council Deputy Speaker. Algeria: Secretary of State Selma Bakhta Mansouri; the chair of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee.
- Documented outcome
- The delegation briefed External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on its return on 3 June 2025. Official releases record the meetings held. They do not record policy outcomes, and none are claimed here.
- Source
- MEA — Visit of all-party delegations · Embassy of India, Algiers · Embassy of India, Bahrain (PDF) · Embassy of India, Kuwait (PDF) · All India Radio, 29 May 2025
Plate 11Members of the all-party delegation led by Shri Panda (centre, grey waistcoat), May 2025. -
Date6 Dec 2023
Global Technology Summit, New Delhi
- Forum
- Global Technology Summit, co-hosted by the Ministry of External Affairs and Carnegie India
- Purpose
- Keynote address on data protection and India’s regulatory approach
- Documented outcome
- Remarks reported by ThePrint (see Speeches & Interviews)
- Source
- ThePrint, 6 Dec 2023
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DateApr 2022
Raisina Dialogue, New Delhi
- Forum
- Raisina Dialogue, hosted by the Observer Research Foundation and the Ministry of External Affairs
- Purpose
- Panellist, “The Revenge of Ideology? Polarisation and the Exhaustion of Liberalism”
- Source
- India News Diary, 26 Apr 2022 (minor outlet)
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PeriodFrom 2001
India–USA Forum of Parliamentarians
- Role
- According to his official biography, he was associated with the Forum from its founding in 2001 and was its Chairman for 15 years.
- Status
- The official biography does not give a current role, and none is stated here.
- Source
- Official biography (PDF)
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PeriodVarious
Track-II dialogues
- As stated
- His official website says he has taken part in more than fifty Track-II dialogues. Individual dialogues are not itemised there, and this site has not confirmed them one by one.
- On the record
“I have been involved in Track-2 diplomacy with China for years.”
Baijayant Panda, quoted in ThePrint, 25 April 2022- Source
- jaypanda.in — Biography · ThePrint, 25 Apr 2022
Not found
This review found no documented participation in IPU, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association or UN General Assembly delegations, so none are listed. Entries will be added as official records confirm them.