Overview
- India outlined its MAHASAGAR framework, calling for trusted and diversified maritime links, port-led development, and protection of maritime and undersea infrastructure.
- Jaishankar urged upholding UNCLOS as the legal basis for a predictable maritime order and flagged piracy, smuggling and IUU fishing as shared security challenges.
- He highlighted India’s role as a maritime first responder and pushed to deepen HADR cooperation through joint exercises and logistics arrangements.
- In a separate outreach on energy security and critical minerals, he called for mitigating dependence, improving predictability and building resilience, offering India’s constructive cooperation.
- On the sidelines, he met counterparts from Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the European Union and Canada, discussing Ukraine developments, regional tensions, connectivity, energy, trade and supply chains, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offering condolences over the Delhi blast.