Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu to Visit Serbia, Malta, Romania

New Delhi: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu will go on a week-long tour of Serbia, Malta, and Romania from September 14, an official announced on Thursday. He will be accompanied by Union Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla, Rajya Sabha Members Prasanna Acharya, Vijila Satyanand and Saroj Pandey, Lok Sabha Member Raghav Lakhanpal and a business delegation spearheaded by industry body CII. Briefing the media here, Anju Kumar, Joint Secretary (Central Europe) in the External Affairs Ministry, said that the visit is being undertaken given the importance of the geo-strategic location of all the three countries. (IANS)