U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to New Delhi next week for the ‘2+2’ meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, according to the U.S. State Department.
The group of Ministers will discuss “both bilateral and global concerns and developments in the Indo-Pacific”, the State Department said. Mr. Blinken’s visit to New Delhi is part of a larger November 2-10 trip to Tel Aviv, Amman, Tokyo and Seoul. The New Delhi visit is expected to take place on November 9-10.
Secretaries Blinken and Austin will also meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the ministerial meetings , the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement.
