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April 2008

• Sr. Minister of Bahrain, Abdulnabi Aalsho’ala meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil called on the President of Mexico Mr. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa

• President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil meeting with the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

• Canadian Secretary of State for Sports, Ms.Helena Guergis calling on the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs & Sports, Dr. M.S. Gill 

• Egyptian Trade Minister, Engr. Rachid Mohamed Rachid and the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil being received by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Joao Cravinho

• Ambassador of China to India, Zhang Yan calls on the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee

• Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari meeting with the President of Kazakhstan, Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev, at Astana, Kazakhstan

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the President of the Poitou Charentes region, France, Ms. Segolene Royale

• Minister for National Defence Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Abdul Rahim Wardak called on the Defence Minister, A. K. Antony

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with other Heads of Country group photograph at the First India-Africa Forum Summit

• Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Tertins Zongo meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Vice President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete

• Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari meeting with the President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdumuhamedov

• Ambassador of Brazil to India, Marco Antonio Diniz Brandao presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Nepal to India, Durgesh Man Singh presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Benin to India, Sedozan Jean-Claude Apithy presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Gabon to India, Mr. Desire Koumba presented his credentials to the President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Commander of Turkish Land Forces, General Ilker Basbug, called on the Minister of State for Defence M.M. Pallam Raju

• Minister of Energy, Myanmar, Brig. Gen. Lun Thi meeting with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

March 2008

• Brazilian minister for Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Miguel Jorge meeting with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

• Minister for Public Security of Vietnam, General Le Hong Anh calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Speaker of the US House of Representative, Nancy Pelosi

• Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Ali Mahama meeting with the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari

• Chief Secretary, Liberal Democratic Party (Ruling Party), Japan, Koya Nishikawa meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• State Minister for Foreign Trade of Turkey, Kursat Tuzmen calls on the Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, T.R.Baalu

• Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland meeting with the Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma

• Minister Incharge of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Democratic Republic of Congo, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi called on the Defence Minister, A. K. Antony

• Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram witnessing exchange of Notes between India & Japan on the second batch of FY 2007 ODA package

• Speaker of National Council of Slovak Republic, Pavol Paska, presenting a memento to the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari

• Deputy Minister for Home Affairs of Myanmar, Brig. Gen. Phone Swe along with a delegation meeting with the Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil

• Anand Sharma, Minister of State for External Affairs address to the High Level Segment of the Human Rights Council's 7th Session in Geneva

• Minister of Economy and Finance of Romania, Varujan Vosganian meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Finance Minister of Nepal, Ram Sharan Mahat meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Nandini Awade, Addl. Resident Commissioner, Government of Maharasthra receives letter from JNU Pro Vice Chancellor, Dr. R. Kumar at JNU Campus

February 2008

• Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud Al-Faisal calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Assistant Minister of Defence for Material Resources, Serbia, Ilija Pilipovic called on the Minister of State for Defence, M.M. Pallam Raju

• U.S. Defence Secretary, Dr. Robert M. Gates calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Per Westerberg alongwith a delegation meeting the Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, Priyaranjan Dasmunsi

• Army Chief of Bangladesh, General Moeen U. Ahmed, being welcomed by the Minister of State for Commerce, Jairam Ramesh

• Defence Minister Of Hungary, Dr. Imre Szekeres called on the Defence Minister, A. K. Antony

• Prime Minister of Mauritius, Navin Chandra Ramgoolam calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• US Senator, Joseph Biden meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee with President Lula of Brazil

• Canadian Deputy Minister of Transport, John Knubley meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Minister of State for Industry, Dr. Ashwani Kumar meeting with the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, in Tokyo

• Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma meeting with the Defence Minister of Mozambique, Tobias Joaquim Dai

• Ambassador of Kuwait, Khalaf Abass Khalab Al-Foudori calls on the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari

• High Commissioner of New Zealand, His Excellency Rupert Holborow, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• High Commissioner of Uganda, Her Excellency Nimisha Madhvani, presenting her credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• High Commissioner of Malaysia, His Excellency Dato Tan Seng Sung, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Chile, His Excellency Alfonso Silva, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• High Commissioner of Fiji, His Excellency Savenaca Kaunisela, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• High Commissioner of Malawi, His Excellency Brian Bowler, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• High Commissioner of Seychelles, His Excellency Dick Esparon, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Prime Minister of Russia, Viktor A. Zubkov meeting with the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• President of Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Foreign Minister of Turkey, Ali Babacan meeting with the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari

• Spanish Minister of Environment, Cristina Narbona and the Ambassador of Spain to India, Ion De La Riva Guzman De Frutos meeting with the Union Minister for Water Resources, Prof. Saifuddin Soz

• Prime Minister of Finland, Matti Vanhanen, calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyz, Ednan Karabaev meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at the ceremonial reception of the Prime Minister of Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen

• Irish Trade Minister, Nigel Dodds meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyz, Ednan Karabaev meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

January 2008

• Secretary, Culture, Abhijit Sengupta and the Ambassador of France in India, Jerome Bonnafont jointly inaugurating the INDIA PHOTO NOW’ 08 exhibitions

• President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil and the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, at the ceremonial reception of the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy

• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown meeting with the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• On the Eve of 25th year of formation of Latur district in the state of Maharashtra a function was organised in the city of Latur

• Deputy Chairperson of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Hungarian Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany meeting with the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Vice President of El Salvador, Ana Albanex de Escobar, meeting with the Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma

• Minister for Economic Affairs & Finance of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Danish Jafri meeting with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Chinese President, Hu Jintao at Great Hall of People, in Beijing, China

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, at a private dinner, in Beijing, China

• Canadian Foreign Minister, Maxime Bernier meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh shaking hands with the Greece Prime Minister, Kostas Karamanlis

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary, Michael O. Leavitt meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Malaysian Minister for Works, S. Samy Vellu calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil and the Egypt's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Abul Gheit after signing the Bilateral Agreements

• Prime Minister of Mauritius, Navinchandra Ramgoolam meeting with the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari

• Diplomatic Adviser to the President of France, Jean-David LEVITTE calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Minister of Finance, Government of Japan, Fukushiro Nukaga meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Foreign Minister of Myanmar, U. Nyan Win, calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

December 2007

• Minister for Peace and Reconstruction of Nepal, Ram Chandra Poudyal calls on the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• French Minister of External Affairs and European Affairs, Bernard Kouchner calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Ambassador of China to India, Zhang Yan presented his Credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Austria to India, Dr. Ferdinand Multaschi presented his Credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• High Commissioner of Kenya to India, Prof. Festus Kaberia presented his Credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil,

• Ambassador of Turkmenistan to India, Parahat Hommadovich Durdyev presented his Credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Somalia to India, Ebyan Mahamed Salah presented her Credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Defence Minister, A. K. Antony calling on the Vietnamese Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, in Hanoi

• Deputy Prime Minister of Sultanate of Oman, Sayyid Fahad Bin Mahmood Al Said calls on the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Kapil Sibal met the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the Conference on Climate Change

• Ambassador of Japan, Hideaki Domichi, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Ambassador of Netherlands, Bob H. Hiensch, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Israel, Mark Sofer, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Ambassador of Colombia, Juan Alfredo Pinto Saavedra, presenting his credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Chief of Army Staff, Nepal General Rookmangud Katawal called on the Defence Minister, A. K. Antony

• Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath and the Austrian Federal Minister of Commerce and Labour, Martin Bartenstein

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister, U Kyaw Thu

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, Rohita Bogollagama

• Foreign Minister of Maldives, Abdulla Shahid called on the Defence Minister, A. K. Antony

• Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Saad A.Al-Shuwaib meeting with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

• Assistant Minister for Agriculture of Botswana, Olifant Mfa meeting with the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Kantilal Bhuria

• Premier, Province of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Botswana, Olifant Mfa meeting with the Minister of State for Industry, Dr. Ashwani Kumar

November 2007

• President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Portugal, Jose Socrates are meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Kapil Sibal and the Minister of Science & Technology, Austria, Dr. Johannes Hahn

• Vietnam Deputy Minister of Defence, Gen. Nguven Huy Hieu called on the Defence Minister A K Antony

• Ali Alatas, the Indonesian Special Envoy for climate change meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Minister for Foreign Trade for Netherlands, Frank Heemsherk meeting with the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil meeting with The Minister of National Defence of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Gordon Brown during Retreat Session at Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Elizabeth Clark during Retreat Session

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa during Retreat Session at Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Botswana President, Festus Gontebanye Mogae during Retreat session at Munyonyo Commonwealth resort

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda, on the sideline of 6th India-ASEAN & 3rd East Asia Summit

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, on the sideline of 6th India-ASEAN & 3rd East Asia Summit

• Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs, Vayalar Ravi meeting with the Minister of Labour & Social Affairs of Qatar, Dr. Sultan Bin Hassan Al-Dhabit Al- Dosari

• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh being received by the Minister for Community Development & Youth Sports, Singapore, Vivian Balakrishanan

• Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Mahavir Prasad meeting with the South African Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry, Elizabeht Thabethe

• Ambassador of Norway to India, Ann Ollestad meeting with the Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, T. R. Baalu

• Deputy Minister of Trade from Vietnam Nguyen Danh Vinh meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin, at a function, in Moscow

• Foreign Minister of Singapore, George Yeo meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Alexander Losyukov and other diginataries

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil meeting with the Minister of Emergence Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic, Turabet djunushaliev

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil meeting with the Home Minister of the Islamic Repubilc of Iran, Mostafa Pour Mohammadi

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil meeting with the Home Minister of Nepal, Krishna Prasad

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Interior of Israel, Meir Shetrit

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with the Minister of Industry, Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Cooperative of the Republic of Mauritius, Dr. R. Jeetah

• Vice President of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan meeting with the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari

• Deputy Minister Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Province of Manitoba, Canada, Barry Todd along with a delegation meeting with the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Kantilal Bhuria

• Prime Minister of Ethopia, Meles Zenawi, calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• President of the Swiss Confederation, Ms. Micheline Kalmy-Ray addressing at 4th International Conference on Federalism

• Minister of Mines & Energy, Ethiopia, Alemayehu Tegenu meeting with the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

• Minister-Mentor of the Republic of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew calls on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

October 2007

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at the ceremonial reception of the Chancellor of Germany, Ms. Angela Merkel

• Minister for Foreign Affairs of Maldives, Abdulla Shahid meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry M. Paulson Jr., calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora addressing at the 6th Doha Natural Gas conference at Doha

• Governor of Utah (USA), Jon Huntsman Jr., meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with a delegation of Parliamentarians from Europe, U.S.A. and U.K.

• Majesty, Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands meeting with the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Egyptian Minister of Health & Population, Dr. Hatem El Gabaly meeting with the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, M.J.A. Van der Hoeven

• Ambassador of Kazakhstan, Dr. Kairat Umarov meeting with the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, in New Delhi

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath along with the Minister of Foreign Trade & Development, Finland, Dr. Paavo Väyrynen

• Ambassador of Arab Republic of Egypt, Dr. Mohamed Higazy and the Director of Directorate of Film Festival, Neelam Kapoor jointly addressing a press conference on the Egyptian Film Festival

• Governor of Minnesota (USA), Pawlenty calls on the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• High Commissioner of the Republic of Mozambique, Carlos Agostinho do Rosario meeting with the Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Dr. Chandrapal

• President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, T. R. Baalu meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Cooperation of Mauritius, Madan Murlidhar Dulloo

• visiting Singapore Defence Minister, Teo Chee Hean called on the Defence Minister, A K Antony

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at a joint meeting with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Health Minister at Abuja, Nigeria

• President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• High Commissioner of the Republic of Botswana, D.A Kgosietsile meeting with the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Shakeel Ahmad

• British High Commissioner to India, Richard Stagg and the Secretary of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Affairs and Sports, S. K. Arora signing an MoU

• Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma meeting with the Special Assignment Minister for Electronic, Government Affairs of Latvia, Ina Gudele

• Defence Secretary, Vijay Singh and the Singapore's Permanent Secretary (Defence) Chiang Chie Foo

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil meeting with the Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, Le Hong Anh in Hanoi

• President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Ambassador of Iceland, Gunnar Palsson and the Secretary, Ministry of New Renewable Sources Govt. of India, V. Subramanian

• Minister of Education and Culture, Republic of Hungary Dr. Istvan Hiller, meeting with the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Arjun Singh

• A.K. Singhal, Director (Finance), NTPC receiving the prestigious Golden Peacock Global Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance- 2007

• Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni meeting with the Education and Culture Minister of Hungary, Istvan Hiller

• Dy. Prime Minister and Minister of Education of New Zealand, Dr. Michael Cullen called on the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Arjun Singh

September 2007

• Chief Guest Mr. Pallam Raju (Center) with His Excellency Mr. Sun Yuxi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of India (Left) with Ambassador's Wife Mrs. Ma Hua

• Vice President, Mohd. Hamid Ansari meeting with the High Commissioner of Malta, Fred Kinely

• Ambassador of France to India, Jerome Bonnafont presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Norway to India, Ann Ollestad presented her credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• Ambassador of Luxembourg to India, Marc Courte presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee with Celso Amorim, Foreign Minister of Brazil and N. Dlamini Zuma,Foreign Minister of South Africa

• Ambassador of European Commission to India, Daniele Smadja presented her credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

• High Commissioner of United Kingdom to India, Chrles Richard Vernon Stagg presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Ambassador of Cuba to India, Miguel Angel Ramirez Ramos presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Ambassador of Belgium to India, Jean-Marie Deboutte presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Ambassador of Latvia to India, Hardijs Baumanis presented his credentials to the President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora meeting with the Minister of Energy of Myanmar, Brigadier General Lun Thi

• Minister of Enterprise Development and Investment of Sri Lanka, Dr. Sarath Amunugama meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh shaking hands with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Sergei Stanishev

• Vice President, Mohd. Hamid Ansari with a delegation of Ambassadors and Charge d’ Affairs of Arab counties led by the Dean & Ambassador of Saudi Arabia, Saleh M. Al-Ghamdi

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa

• Union Minister for External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Dy. Foreign Minister of Iran, Mehdi Safari

• Home Minister of South Africa, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula calls on the Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil

• Delegation of conservative Parliamentarian from Canada led by the Chairman of Canada-India Parliamentary Friendship Group, Patrick W. Brown calls on the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee

• Minister of State for External Affairs, E.Ahamed with the President of Iran, Ahamed Nejad

• Minister of State for Commerce, Jairam Ramesh meeting with a High Level Chinese political and Business delegation

August 2007

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with, Chairman of CDU in German Parliament, Volker Kauder

• Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma meeting with the Foreign Minister of Guatemala, Gert Rosenthal

• Minister of Security, Uganda, Amama Mbabazi meeting with the Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with the Japanese Defence Minister Yuriko Koike

• Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe addressing the joint session of Parliament in center hall of Parliament House

• Governor of Maharashtra S. M. Krishna met the President of India Pratibha Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• The Deputy Defence Minister of Malaysia, Dato Haji Zainal Abidin Bin Haji Zin calls on the Defence Minister, A.K. Antony

• Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni and other dignatries at the inaugural function of the China National Trust Administration office in India

• Union Minister for Water Resources, Prof. Saifuddin Soz shaking hands with the Minister of Energy of Congo, Salomon Banamuhere Baliene

• Minister for Science and Technology of Sudan, Abdel Rahman Saead calls on the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, A. Raja

• Parliamentary Delegation from Germany led by the President of the German Bundestag, Dr. Norbert Lammert meeting with the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Information & Broadcasting, Priyaranjan Dasmunsi

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora meeting with the President of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiev

• Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Kumar Sanjay Krishna and the Ambassador of Japan to India Yasukuni Enoki

• Foreign Minister of Syria, Walid Al-Mouallem meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Minister of Enterprises and Employment of Swaziland, Lutfo E. Dlamiai meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• US Senator, Joseph I. Lieberman calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Kingdom of Thailand, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

• Secretary Ministry of Water Resources, Bangladesh, Syed Mohammed Zobaer, called on Union Minister for Water Resources, Prof. Saifuddin Soz

• Ambassador of Brazil, Jose Vicente Pimentel called on Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, Minister of Health & Family Welfare

• Minister of State for Industry, Ashwani Kumar in a meeting with the Israeli delegation led by Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, Ellie Yishai

• Minister of State for Industry, Ashwani Kumar with the President of the Republic of South Africa Thabo Mbeki

• Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda, Lt. General Kayumba Nyamwasa meeting with the Secretary Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Dr. Chandrapal

• Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta and the Home Secretary of Bangladesh, Mohammed Abdul Karim

• Minister for Investment promotion of Sri Lanka Navin Dissanayake called on the Minister of State for Commerce, Jairam Ramesh

• Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil meeting with the Home Secretary of Bangladesh Mohammed Abdul Karim

July 2007

• Diplomatic Advisor to the President of France, Jean David Levitte called on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• MOU on sustainable Fisheries Development between India and Iceland signed by the Secretary (ADF), Govt. of India, Charusheela Sohoni and the Ambassador of Iceland in India, Dr. Gunnar Re Palsson

• Republic of Guatemala Ambassador, Giovany Castillo called on the Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma

• Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss meeting with the Governor of Victoria State, Professor David Kretser

• Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan administering the oath of the office of the President of India to Pratibha Patil

• Delegation from Indonesia headed by the Vice Speaker of the Commissioner (Leader), Abdul Hamam Naja, called on the Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Iran to India, Sayed Mehdi Nabizadeh presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Ambassador of Spain to India, Ion De La Riva Guzman De Frutos presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• High Commissioner of Federal Republic of Nigeria to India, Lawal M. Dustin-Ma presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Ambassador of State of Eritrea to India, Alem Tsehaye Woldemariam presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• High Commissioner of Malta to India, Wiltred Kenely presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Masaharu Kono meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Minister of External Relations, Brazil, Celso Amorim

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, South Africa, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma

• Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma released a special issue of Gagnanchal and the Directory of Hindi Scholars at the 8th World Hindi Conference

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath and the Minister for Economy, Trade & Investment, Libya, Dr. Ali Abdullah Al-Essawi

• US Ambassador to India, David Mulford called on the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, A. Raja

• President of the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey, Alpaslan Korkmaz meeting with the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

• Defence Secretary, Shekhar Dutt and the Australian High Commissioner, John McCarthy signed an Arrangement for Protection of Classified Information

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Vice-President of the Nepali Congress-Democratic, Gopal Man Shrestha

• Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs & Sports and Development of North Eastern Region, Mani Shankar Aiyar meeting with a Youth Delegation from Saudi Arabia

• Davit Lokyan, Agriculture Minister, Armenia and Kanti Lal Bhuria during inaugural session for International Armenian Apricot Conference in Yerevan

• Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia Samdech Hun Sen being received by the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Shakeel Ahmad

• Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh shaking hand with the Prime Minister of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dung

• Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta welcomed the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, Syed Kamal Shah at the Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry Kamal Nath with the Minister of Economy, Trade & Industry of Japan, Akiro Amar

June 2007

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the former Prime Minister of France, Michel Rocard

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at the ceremonial reception for the visiting Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, General Surayud Chulanont

• Ambassador of Denmark to India, Ole Lonsmann Poulsen calls on the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee

• Thailand Commerce Minister, Krirk-krai Jirapaet speaking at a press conference in Agartala, Tripura

• Minister of State Anand Sharma at delegation level talks during his visit to Colombia

• External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsein Loong

• Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Kantilal Bhuria meeting with the canadian wheat Board Minister, Chuck Strahl

• Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni and the Minister of Culture of People’s Republic of China, Sun Jiazheng signing Cultural Exchange Programme

• External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee meeting Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono during his visit to Indonesia

• Delegation from Afghanistan meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Minister of State for Industry, Ashwani Kumar meeting with the former Vice President of the United States of America, Al Gore, in Florence

• Norwegian Education & Research Minister, Oystein Djupedal calls on the Minister of State for Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, D. Purandeswari

• Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs, Vayalar Ravi and Labour Minister of Poland, Anna Kalata holding a joint press conference

• Minister of State Anand Sharma meeting Portuguese President Prof. Anibal Cavaco Silva during his visit to Portugal

• Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of the People’s Republic of China, Hu Jintao, on the sidelines of G-8 Summit

• Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, on the sidelines of G-8 Summit at Berlin in Germany

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yaradua, on the sidelines of G-8 Summit at Berlin in Germany

• Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh meeting with the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on the sidelines of G-8 Summit at Berlin in Germany

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived at the Berlin-Tegel Airport to attend G-8 Summit in Germany

• Minister of Foreign Affairs, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• General Secretary, Communist Party of Nepal, Madhav Nepal is calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh at the ceremonial reception of the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Minister for Defence of Germany, Franz Josef Jung

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with the Industry Minister of Brazil, Miguel Jorge

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns

• nion Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs, Vayalar Ravi shaking hands with the President of Trinidad and Tobago, Prof. George Maxwell Richards

• Union Minister for Water Resources, Prof. Saifuddin Soz in a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Chen Lei, in Shanghai, China

May 2007

• Vice President, Mexican Senate, Madam Jeidkol Polevsky meeting with the Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma

• Ethiopian Minister of Urban Development and Small Scale Industries, Dr. Kassu Ilalla called on the Union Minister for Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries, Mahavir Prasad

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of ASEM meeting

• Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Kantilal Bhuria meeting with the Minister for Internal Affairs of Uganda, Ruhakana Rugunda

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with UAE Minister of Economy, Shaikha Lubna Al Qasimi,

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Libyan leader col. Muammar Gaddafi

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee and the Foreign Minister of Cyprus, Yiorgos Lilliks signing the agreements during his visit to Cyprus

• Minister of State for Industry Ashwani Kumar in a meeting with Tayeb Fassi Fihri, Minister Delegate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco

• Ambassador of Ukrain to India, Dr. Igor Polikha presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• The Ambassador of Republic of Korea to India, Peak Young-sun presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Ambassador of Hungary to India, Dr. Geza Palmai presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Ambassador of Bahrain to India, Mohamed Ghassan Mohamed presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Ambassador of Philippines to India, Mrs.Teresita Vega Berner presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram and the Minister of Economy of Mexico, Dr. Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape

• Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia, Hor Namhong calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Minister of State for Commerce, Jairam Ramesh and the Minister for Industry, Trade and Marketing of Tanzania, Basil Mramba

• Minister of Mines and Industry of Senegal, Madicke Niang shaking hands with the Union Minister of Steel, Chemicals & Fertilizers, Ram Vilas Paswan

• President Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam administering the oath as Minister of State to V.Radhika Selvi at a Swearing-in Ceremony

• H.E. Raouf Chatty, Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia calls on Somnath Chatterjee, Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha in Parliament House

• Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss meeting with the Prime Minister of Norway, Gens Stoltenberg

• S. Ragupathy, assuming the charge of the Minister for Environment and Forest

• Advisor, Ministries of Health & Family Welfare, Water Resources and Religious Affairs, Government of Bangladesh, Dr. A.S.M. Mahatur Rahman called on the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss

• Finance Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Choudhary calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Shotaro Yachi

• Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss addressing the 60th World Health Assembly at Geneva

• Parliamentary Delegation from Kazakhstan led by Serik Abdrakhmanov, Chairman, Committee for International Affairs, Defense and Security of Majilis (Lower House) of Kazakhstan calls on Somnath Chatterjee, Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha

• Italian Defence Minister, Arturo Parisi calls on the Defence Minister, A.K. Antony

• Vietnamese Parliamentary Delegation led by the Chairman of External Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam, Vu Mao called on the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee

• Cuban Parliamentary delegation led by the Vice President of the National Assembly of People's Power of the Republic of Cuba, Jaime Crombat Hernandez Baquero called on the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee

• Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Paying tributes to Late Shri Pramod Mahajan on the first death anniversery

• Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh calling on the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Carl Bildt

• Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora, meeting with the Iranian Oil Minster, Seyed Kazem Vaziri Humane

• Union Minister for Urban Development, S. Jaipal Reddy and Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Tetsuzo Fuyshiba

• Secretary to the Govt. of India, Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways, A.K Mohapatra and the Secretary to the Government of Bengladesh, Ministry of Shipping, M. Sheikh Enayethllah

April 2007

• President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam a shaking hands with the President of Greece Karolos Papoulias after meeting the Press at Presidential Palace, in Athens, Greece

• Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transportation of Japan, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, is calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• President Nursultan Nazarbayev addressing the 6th Eurasia Media Forum 2007 at Almaty, Kazakhstan

• President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with the President of European Hans-Gert Pottering in the European Parliament at Strasbourg in France

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora handing over the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh's letter to the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora meeting with the Prime Minister of Algeria, Abdelaziz Belkhadem

• Special Representative on the Boundary question of the People’s Republic of China, Dai Bingguo calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Chairman, Egyptian Tourism Authority, Amr El Egaby calls on the Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Visiting Indian Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister, Murli Deora with the Deputy Prime Minister of Syria, Abdullah Dardari, in Damascus (Syria)

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath having a bilateral meeting with the New Zealand Trade Minister, Phil Goff

• Secretary (A&C), Dr. P.K. Mishra and the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Consumer Protection of Germany, Gerd Muller

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora with the Minister of Oil and Natural Resources of Syria, Engineer Sufian Al Alao, in a meeting at Damascus, Syria

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with the Canadian Trade Minister, David Emerson

• President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko meeting with the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath is meeting with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Akira Amari

• Minister of External Relations of Brazil, Celso Amorim calling on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Ambassador/Director of the Cultural Department of Brazil, Paulo Cesar Meira Vasconcellos calls on the Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs, Vayalar Ravi and the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah

• Foreign Minister of Cuba, Felipe Ramon Perez Roque calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath and the Minister of Commerce of Thailand Krirk-krai Jirapaet

• Minister of Agriculture of Eritrea, Arefaine Berhe shaking hands with the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Kantilal Bhuria

• President of Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on the sidelines of 14th SAARC Summit

• Head of States and Head of Government of SAARC Countries posing a photographs with the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the 14th SAARC Summit

• Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Taro Aso addressing the 14th SAARC Summit

• Foreign Minister of Republic of Korea, Song Min Soon addressing the 14th SAARC Summit

• Foreign minister of Afghanistan Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta being received by the Minister of State for External Affair Anand Sharma

• Prime Minister of Nepal, Girija Prasad Koirala, calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on the eve of 14th SAARC Summit

• Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk, calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on the eve of 14th SAARC Summit

March 2007

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Foreign Advisor of Bangladesh, Dr. Iftekar Ahmed Chowdhury

• Joint Secretary (Bilateral Cooperation), Kumar Sanjay Krishna and the Ambassador of Japan to India, Yasukuni Enoki

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath with trade Minister of France Ms. Christine Lagarde

• Former Iranian President, Seyed Mohammad Khatami, calling on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe

• Nobel laureate from Kenya, Prof. Wangari M. Maathai, calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, T.R.Baalu meeting with Shaul Mofaz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport of Israel

• Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• US Energy Secretary, Samuel W. Bodman meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, Rohitha Bogollagama meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Ursula Plassnik meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Prof. S. Jaikumar meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Ambassador of Portugal to India, Luis Filipe Carrilho De Castro Mendes, presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Ambassador of Sweden to India, Lars Olof Lindgren presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Ambassador of Tunisia to India, Raouf Chatty presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• High Commissioner of Jamaica to India, Paul Anthony Robotham presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath at the bilateral meeting with the Minister of Trade and Industry, Trinidad & Tobago Kenneth Valley

• Minister for Water Resources of Nepal, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki meeting with the Union Minister for Water Resources, Prof. Saifuddin Soz

• Minister of External Relations of Republic of El Salvador, Francisco E Lainez calls on the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with the European Union Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel

• Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn of Thailand called on the Vice President, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

• Minister of Foreign Affairs & External Trade of Figi, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau calls on the Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Kumar Sanjay Krishna and the Ambassador-Head, Delegation of EC to India, Mr. Francisco Da Camara Gomes

• Union Minister for Law & Justice, Dr. H.R. Bhardwaj meeting with the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Afghanistan, Ghulam Farooq Wardak

February 2007

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora shaking hands with the Trade Minister of Australia, Warren Truss

• Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister of Vietnam, Pham Gia Khiem calls on the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh

• Spanish delegation led by the President of Spanish Senate, Mr. Javier Rojo in a meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Minister of Foreign Affair of Republic of Belarus, ergei Martynov meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Defence Minister of Republic of Congo, Jacques Yvon Ndolou called on the Defence Minister, A.K. Antony

• Premier of Western Australia, Alan Carpenter meeting with the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Shri Pranab Mukherjee and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri at the joint press interaction

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath meeting with the Minister of State for Commerce of Pakistan, Hamid Yar Hiraj

• Flemish Minister (Belgium) for Foreign Affairs, Media & Tourism, Geert Bourgeois meeting with Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, H.E. Dato’ Seri Syed Hamid Albar calls on the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at the ceremonial reception of the Prime Minister of Italy, Romano Prodi

• Minister of Energy and Water Resources of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Parviz Fattah meeting with the Union Minister for Water Resources, Prof. Saifuddin Soz

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the People’s Republic of China, Li Zhaoxing and the Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey V. Lavrov

• E.Ahamed, Minister of State for External Affairs calling on Driss Jetou, Hon'ble Prime Minister of Morocco in Rabat, Morocco

• US Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Carlos M. Gutierrez, calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi

• Prime Minister of Italy, Romano Prodi inaugurating an “Exhibition on the Conservation of Mural Paintings in Ajanta Caves”

• Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey V. Lavrov calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora meeting with G.O. Gref, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russian Federation

• Osamu Watanabe, chairman and CEO of the Japan External Trade Organization calling on Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with H.M.Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, in New Delhi

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Minister of Economy and Finance of Greece, George Alogoskoufis

• German Science Education and Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan meeting the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• Minister of State for Trade & Industry of Singapore, S. Iswaran calls on the Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath

• Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Kapil Sibal with the Croatian Minister of Science, Education and Sports, Dragan Primorac

• Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Murli Deora and his counter- part of Yemen, Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah signing the Protocol of Bilateral Co-operation in the field of oil and gas industry

• Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran and the visiting Sweden Dy. Prime Minister & Minister for Enterprise and Energy Ms. Maud Olofsson

January 2007

• Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Rohitha Bogollagama calling on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Venezuela, Francisco Sesto Novas calls on the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Murli Deora being greeted by the Secretary (Cabinet Minister) for Economic Cooperation of Libya, Taher Al Siala

• Minister of Culture, Tanzania, Muhamed Seif Khatib calls on the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Francesco Rutelli

• Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal, Pradeep Gyawali meeting with the Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee

• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla

• Minister of Tourism, Fair Trading & Wine Industry Development, Australia, Ms. Margaret Keech calls on the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, Smt. Ambika Soni

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Slovenia, Janez Drnovsek

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk

• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Wickramanayake

• Mr. Bacchan is given the award of the Officer of the Legion of Honour by H. E the French Ambassador Mr. Dominique Girard

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam

• Russian Minister of Culture & Mass Communication A.S. Sokolov, calling on the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni

• Russian Deputy Prime Minister & Defence Minister, Sergei Ivanov calls on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Technological Affairs at the Ministry of External Relations and main trade negotiator for Brazil, Roberto Azevedo meet meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson

• Foreign Minister of Singapore, George Yeo calls on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the President of Finland Ms. Tarjo Halonen

• Prime Minister of Netherlands, Dr. Jan Peter Balkenende shaking hands with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath with the Prime Minister of Czech Republic Jiri Paroubek

• Ambassador, Republic of Iceland to India Gunnar Palsson, presented his Credentials to the President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Ambassador, Republic of Sudan to India Abdel Rahman Mohamed Bakhiet, presented his Credentials to the President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• High Commissioner of Islamic Republic of Pakistan to India, Shahid Malik presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea to India Tarcisius Adrian Eri, presented his Credentials to the President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee meeting with the Minister of Trade and Industry, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Hashim A. Yamani

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting with the Executive Vice Foreign Minister and the Special Representative on the Boundary Question of the People’s Republic of China Dai Bingguo

• Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Murli Deora shaking hands with the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia, Engineer Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi

• Trade Minister of the United Kingdom Alistair Darling calls on the Union Power Minister Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde

• Nigerian Minister of Energy and President OPEC, Dr. Edmund Daukoru shaking hands with the Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Murli Deora

• The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh in conversation with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Ms. Helen Clark

• President of Lombardy Region, Italy, Mr. Roberto Formigoni called on the Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Sontosh Mohan Dev

• Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Murli Deora lighting the lamp to inaugurate the Oil & Gas Conservation Fortnight, 2007

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh being received by the Philippines President Ms.Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, at Cebu in Philippines

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung holding bilateral talks during the 2nd East Asia Summit

• Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabo during the 2nd East Asia Summit, in Philippines

• President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam meeting with President of Portugal His Excellency Prof. Anibal Cavaco Silva

• Union Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee at the ASEAN Annual Ministerial Meeting at Cebu in Philippines

• Delegation of Swiss Parliamentarians accompanied by senior representatives from Pro Belvetia calls on the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, Smt. Ambika Soni

• Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Prof. S. Jayakumar called on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Minister of Foreign affairs, International Trade and Co-operation of the Republic of Mauritius Madan Murlidhar Dulloo in New Delhi

• The Chairman, Foreign Relation Committee, European Parliament Elmar Brok called on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

• Chinese delegation led by the Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Madam Liu Yandong

• Italian Minister for International Trade and European Affairs Emma Bonino meeting with the Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath

• Minister of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Ontario, Canada Harindar Takhar addressing at the Working Session 7 Meeting India's Development Challenges at the 5th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas