Your Excellency President MattarellaExcellency Vice President and Foreign Minister TajaniMr. Franco BruniColleaguesExcellenciesLadies and Gentlemen It is a pleasure to be back at the Mediterranean dialogue. Allow me to offer some thoughts on the key themes of this meeting. The first point is on the relevance of India to the Mediterranean. Our annual trade with the Mediterranean nations is about USD 80 billion. We have a diaspora here of 460,000. About 40% of that in Italy. Our key interests are in fertilizers, energy, water technology, diamonds, defence and cyber. India has significant projects underway as airports, ports, railway, steel, green hydrogen, phosphates and submarine cables. Our political relations with the Mediterranean are strong and our defence collaboration is growing including more exercises and exchanges. Let me now shift to the Middle […]