Washington:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and going to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar would talk about a wide variety of challenges, such as COVID-19, efforts to strengthen Indo-Pacific cooperation by means of the Quad, enhanced UN and multilateral cooperation, a State Department spokesperson stated on Monday.
Mr Jaishankar, who arrived in New York on Sunday on his 1st pay a visit to to the US following India entered the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member in January this year, is anticipated to travel to Washington DC on Wednesday.
“The Secretary looks forward to meeting Minister Jaishankar during his visit, and to discussing a broad range of issues, including COVID-19 relief, efforts to strengthen Indo-Pacific cooperation through the Quad, enhanced UN and multilateral cooperation, and a range of other shared regional security and economic priorities,” the spokesperson stated.
It is the 1st pay a visit to by a senior Indian minister to the US following President Joe Biden assumed workplace in January.
The leading Indian diplomat has a busy schedule in the American capital later this week.
In addition to meeting his counterpart, Mr Jaishankar is scheduled to meet US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, other senior officials of the Biden Administration, influential lawmakers, assume-tanks, leaders of the corporate sector and members of the Indian American neighborhood.
Neither the State Department nor the Ministry of External Affairs have announced the day and timing of the Jaishankar-Blinken meeting.
Mr Blinken on Monday left for a speedy trip to the Middle East as aspect of the efforts of the Biden Administration’s peace method in the area.
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