The 2024 edition of the annual apex-level international conference of the Indian Navy, the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD) with the theme ‘Resource-Geopolitics and Security in the Indo-Pacific’  will be held in New Delhi from the 3rd to the 5th of next month. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will address the conference and its focus will be on Marine Resources and Resource Sharing will be focus areas during the conference.  

According to the Indian Navy, IPRD is the principal manifestation of the Indian Navy’s international engagement at the strategic level and addresses holistic maritime security issues across the Indo-Pacific. This year’s conference will concentrate on how traditional and newly identified marine resources are driving contemporary geopolitics and it will shape this in future. Offshore energy resources such as hydrocarbons are likely to retain their geopolitical significance.