The three-day apex-level regional strategic dialogue of the INDIAN NAVY, the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue 2022 (IPRD-2022) began in New Delhi on Wednesday, 23 November 2022. The IPRD is an annual international conference that seeks to foster exchange of ideas and promote deliberations on maritime issues relevant to the Indo-Pacific which, for India, stretches over a vast, predominantly maritime expanse from the eastern shore of Africa to the western shore of the Americas.
The inaugural session was followed by two thematic sessions onWeaving the Fabric of Holistic Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific: Multilateral andConstructing Holistic-Security Bridges across the Western and Eastern Maritime Expanse of the Indo-Pacific. In these sessions, globally renowned subject-matter experts presented a variety of multilateral and national perspectives on building maritime security cooperation that could best stitch the Indo-Pacific together.