The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will receive the Heads of State/Government participating in 2nd Summit of Forum for India-Pacific Island Countries (FIPIC) at Rashtrapati Bhavan tomorrow (August 20, 2015).
The second FIPIC Summit will be held on August 21 2015 in Jaipur.
The first FIPIC summit was held in Suva, Fiji in November 2014 during Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s visit. FIPIC has as its members India and 14 Pacific Island countries, namely Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and the Union Minister for External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs, Smt. Sushma Swaraj at the Ceremonial Reception of Heads of States arriving for the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation Summit, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi on August 20, 2015.