India’s flood relief outreach to Madagascar will be followed up this week, as the island’s Defence Minister Rakotonirina Leon Jean Richard travels to Lucknow and Delhi from Tuesday– the very first such high level go to given that Delhi incorporated the island into the “Indian Ocean Area (IOR)”. The Minister will take a trip first to Lucknow to attend the Defexpo, and later on go to the India-Africa Defence Ministers’ conference in Delhi, and hold a bilateral meeting with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday.
