Gabbard to visit India, likely to address Raisina dialogue on March 18
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday said she will visit India as part of a multi-nation trip to the Indo-Pacific, in furtherance of US President Donald Trump’s objectives of peace and freedom.
This will be Gabbard’s first India visit since her US Senate confirmation as the Director of National Intelligence. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the US in February, Gabbard was the first high-level Trump administration official to call on the Prime Minister at Blair House on February 12.
In India, Gabbard will address the Raisina dialogue on March 18, where she has been invited by Prime Minister Modi, The New York Times said today.
“I am wheels up on a multi-nation trip to the Indo-Pacific, a region I know very well having grown up a child of the Pacific. I will be going to Japan, Thailand, and India with a brief stop in France en route back to DC,” Gabbard said in an X post as she embarked on the visit.
The Raisina Dialogue, an annual gathering hosted by the New Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, has listed among its 2025 speakers Alexander A Dynkin President of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
