Mr. Shiv Shankar Menon, former Foreign Secretary of India will meet senior representatives of India's strategic partners on his first outing as National Security Advisor (NSA) to the Munich Security Conference commencing on Friday.

Mr. M K Narayanan, Current West Bengal Governor and former NSA of India will also accompany him on the meet.

The conference will be attended by - Afghanistan President Mr. Hamid Karzai, Azerbaijan President Mr. Ilham Aliyev, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberger, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

With China making its debut, Mr. Yang is slated to deliver the keynote address. The issue of massive U.S. arms sales to Taiwan comes up for discussion.

Afghanistan, disarmament, energy security, Middle East stability, European security architecture and NATO's future are the other topics expected to be aired at the conference.