First foreign visit to Thailand next month by Manmohan Singh

 

  • Next month, Manmohan Singh is likely to make his first foreign visit to Phuket, Thailand, next month to attend the regional summit of BIMST-EC nations.The summit of the BIMST-EC - acronym for Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand-Economic Cooperation.

  • Manmohan Singh is likely to honour are the India-ASEAN summit in Vientiane, Laos in November and the India-EU summit at The Hague, Netherlands in October.

  • In September, Manmohan Singh MAY visit New York to address the United Nations General Assembly. During his trip he will able to meet major world leaders, including US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others.

  • He will try to make minimum trips out of the country as he wanted to concentrate on domestic issues and implementation of the Common Minimum Programme of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition.