♤ India had to, along with its consortium partners, abandon oil investments due to security concerns in 2013.

♤ Instability also threatens India’s migrant workers.

♤ The risk of radicalisation through actors such as the ISIS is also a key concern.

♤ India has abstained from most UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Syria—and having supported one Arab League sponsored resolution.

♤ India—along with other BRICS states—resolutely opposes the regime change narrative

♤ India believes that societies cannot be re-ordered from outside and that people in all countries have the right to choose their own destiny and decide their own future. In line with this, India supports an all-inclusive Syrian-led process to chart out the future of Syria, its political structures and leadership.