All Indian Embassies must join Facebook,says MEA official

Talking about the Public Diplomacy initiatives,he said: “We have been encouraging the Indian embassies abroad to be visible on Facebook. Today,when the governments are battling the fact that they are speaking but are not being heard by their own people,which in turn is resulting in diminishing the government’s credibility,social network is godsend. We have 56 of our embassies on Facebook and are increasing further. Cairo,Palestine are some of the top locations that are following us on our Facebook page.”

Suri also spoke about the effective use of social media as a tool that helped in evacuating Indians in Arab countries. Prior to Suri,Ambassador (retired) K P Fabian spoke on – Perspective on the Arab spring and India. “As a soft power India needs to take serious interest in what is happening in the rest of the world and respond accordingly,” he said.