- Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will pay a two-day working visit to Myanmar on December 22 and 23. This will be his first visit to Myanmar since the coup in February this year.
- India has effectively become the latest government to accord a degree of formal recognition to Myanmar’s military junta.
- India has been softly treading in the direction of official engagement for some time. Despite expressing its deep concern about the military coup and calling for a restoration of the country’s democracy, New Delhi has kept its options open.