17 countries to attend Raisina Dialogue this week

External affairs minister S Jaishankar will play host to 17 ministers from across the world-from Russia and Iran to Latvia- here at the Raisina Dialogue. He is expected to hold bilateral meetings with 12 of them and pull-asides with the others. Among key leaders will be Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Iranian Javad Zarif besides from Europe, South Africa and Tanzania among other nations.