International Seminar on "India – Kazakhstan: Prospects for a Strategic Partnership"

The India-Central Asia Foundation (ICAF), Global India Foundation (GIF), Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) and the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KazISS) organised an International Seminar on "India – Kazakhstan: Prospects for a Strategic Partnership’, at the India International Centre, New Delhi, on the 18th of January 2011.

Global India Foundation was represented by Vice-Admiral P.J.Jacob (Chairman), Professor Omprakash Mishra (Member Secretary), Mr.Ninad Nag, Dr.Lopamudra Bandyopadhyay, Mr.Anurag Sinha and Ms.Cauvery Ganapathy ( Fellows, GIF). Dr.Bandyopadhyay and Mr.Sinha presented insightful academic papers on ‘The Security Challenges facing Kazakhstan and their Implications on India-Kazakhstan Relations’ and ‘The Process of Myth-making: The Economic Salience of Kazakhstan’, respectively.

The Seminar bore a sharp focus on prospects for strategic partnership while addressing the issues of security challenges, science and technology, and the opportunity for cooperation in areas of mutual interest. The Seminar attempted to explore and develop institutional linkages for promoting a higher level of understanding and appreciation of strategic partnership between India and Kazakhstan. The need to cultivate this particular bilateral dynamic was emphatically expressed. The proceedings drew to a close on the consensus that the chances that may have been lost need to be revisited once again, because the strategic partnership between these two nations is a naturally corollary of the interdependent world order.

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