PM’s three-day meet with heads of foreign missions to promote India as a safe destination commences today

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will address a meeting of heads of all foreign missions in Delhi for three days starting today, to promote India as a safe and popular destination. According to a PTI report, this information was provided by Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and External Affairs Anand Sharma at a press meet in Panaji, Goa. The adverse travel advisories post-Mumbai terror attack prompted the Union government to hold this three-day meeting with heads of all foreign missions.

“The meeting will help create an atmosphere that India is safe and a popular destination. The Union government has already initiated dialogue with Indian Missions abroad and their missions in India promoting it as a safe destination,” said Sharma. Replying to a question, he conceded that during Mumbai attack, there were serious administrative and security lapses for which the Prime Minister has already apologised. “The government is looking into them so that there will be no repetition of such events and also accountability can be fixed.