IUFP-FICCI Delegation Visit to Yale University, USA

The IUFP Roundtable

IUFP Roundtable Meet with Amb. Richard Haass and Amb. Robert Blackwill
October 28, 2002

Amb. Robert Blackwill and Amb. Richard Haass seen engrossed in IUFP Roundtable proceedings.
A view of the second IUFP Roundtable meeting in progress.

The second IUFP Roundtable meet hosted Ambassador Richard Haass, Director Policy Planning, US Department of State and the U.S. Ambassador in India, Mr. Robert Blackwill, on October 28, 2002. Issues such as counter-terrorism, Indo-Pakistan relations, Indo-US defence cooperation and more significantly the Iraq crisis constituted the major part of the discussion.

Members of Parliament such as, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Mr. Praful Patel, Mr. Rajeev Shukla, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, Mr. B.J. Panda, Mr. V.P.S. Badnore, Mr. Neil Joeck, Policy Planning Group, Department of State, Mr. Geoffrey Pyatt, Minister-Counsellor (Political), U.S. Embassy, among others were part of the meeting.