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India and the EU interact regularly at the Foreign Minister level.

A Security Dialogue envisaged under the Joint Action Plan has been held annually since May 2006.

The Security Dialogue was merged with the Foreign Policy Consultations in 2016.

The 2016 EU-India Summit adopted a Joint Declaration on the fight against Terrorism.

Both sides have also instituted Foreign Policy Consultations at the level of Secretaries. The first meeting took place in New Delhi on 15 November 2011, followed by a second round in Brussels on 20 July 2012. The last round of the Foreign Policy Consultations (4th) was held in Brussels on 29 February 2016.

A bilateral Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism reports to the Security Dialogue, as do dialogues on Cyber-Security and Counter-Piracy.

An annual India-EU Ad-hoc Dialogue on Human Rights is also held in New Delhi, the eighth meeting of which took place on 27 November 2013.

In addition, a High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Mobility has been instituted at Secretary Level.

India has participated in the EU-hosted Brussels Conference on Afghanistan in October 2016; and the Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region of April 2017

A Delegation for Relations with India (D-IN) was formally constituted in the European Parliament (EP) in 2007 to follow relations with India.