Secretary Manalo Receives Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs Secretary (East)

Indian External Affairs Secretary (East) Jaideep Mazumdar and Secretary Enrique A. Manalo discussed issues of mutual concerns during the former’s courtesy call

MANILA 17 MARCH 2025 — Indian Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (East)Jaideep Mazumdar had a courtesy call on Secretary for Foreign Affairs Enrique A. Manalo at the DFA on 12 March 2025.

During their meeting, they discussed diverse areas of cooperation between the Philippines and India in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure, financing for development cooperation, defense, health and pharmaceuticals and tourism. Both noted that the status of bilateral relations has reached an elevated status.

In addition to stronger bilateral ties, Secretary Manalo also expressed support for initiatives to meaningfully advance relations between ASEAN and India.  The Philippines is the ASEAN Country Coordinator of ASEAN-India Dialogue relations from 2024 to 2027.

Secretary Mazumdar, who served as Indian Ambassador to the Philippines from 2017 to 2020, was in Manila to co-chair the 27th ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (AISOM) on 12 March 2025. END