US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is probably going to journey to India in March and the small print of his go to are being labored out, a report has stated.

The US State Department is eyeing the primary week of March for Blinken’s go to to New Delhi, which might be a run-up to President Joe Biden’s assembly with Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) leaders, ANI reported quoting an official.

“Secretary Blinken will be meeting his Indian counterpart and other officials to lay the groundwork for the upcoming Quad leaders’ summit in May 2023,” the report stated quoting supply.

This would be the third annual summit of Quad members India, Australia, Japan and the US. The final summit was held in Tokyo in May 2022.

“The summit is expected to be held in Sydney and for now, most likely all four leaders will be present in person for the summit. President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will travel to Sydney to meet Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to further cement the Quad cooperation,” one other individual acquainted with the developments advised ANI.

During his India go to, Blinken can even attend the Raisina Dialogue, a multilateral convention held in New Delhi on March 2-4.

The US Secretary is probably going to deal with the Raisina dialogue, an annual convention held on geopolitics and geo-economics that the Observer Research Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs of India hosts.

Earlier in November, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the ASEAN-India summit in Cambodia. The two counterparts mentioned the battle in Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific area and Indo-US bilateral ties.

Blinken can even journey to China in February for continued discussions associated to one of America’s most complex and consequential relationships.

He is at present on a go to to Israel and the West Bank the place tensions have soared over variations between the administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right authorities has grown considerably extra sophisticated over the previous 4 days with a spate of lethal incidents.

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