New Delhi: A customised course for 29 young diplomats from Central Asia commenced at the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service (SSIFS), Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi on December 5 and it will continue till December 16. This course was offered by India at the first India-Central Asia Summit held virtually in January this year. The special course was inaugurated on Monday by Dean (SSIFS) Sanjiv Ranjan.
The training programme includes modules on India's foreign policy, India's relations with Central Asia, multilateral diplomacy and WTO, UN reforms, space diplomacy, India's perspectives on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, negotiation skills, water security, GoI's economic initiatives and economic reforms, digital empowerment, India's pandemic response and women in diplomacy.
