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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mary-Kate Findon

Watch as Blinken holds news conference after meeting Russian foreign minister

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Watch from New Delhi as Antony Blinken holds a press conference during his trip to India.

It comes after the US secretary of state met with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov earlier on Thursday, 2 February.

The brief interaction between the pair was the first such meeting since the beginning of the war in Ukraine this time last year.

According to a State Department official travelling with Blinken they spoke for around 10 minutes.

Before India, he travelled to Uzbekistan for a brief tour of Central Asia, where he spoke with senior Uzbek officials.

While in New Delhi, he is expected to attend a two-day meeting of the foreign ministers from the Group of 20 largest industrialized and developing countries.

China and Russia are among those countries.

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