The News Freedom
New Delhi, November 10
Minister of External Affairs Dr S. Jaishankar on Friday met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as the fifth India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue got underway on Friday. “Pleased to meet with Secretary of State @SecBlinken this morning. An open and productive conversation on further developing our strategic partnership. Also spoke about West Asia, Indo-Pacific and other regional issues.” Dr Jaishankar tweeted on social media platform X formerly known as Twitter.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the 2+2 will enable a high-level review of progress being made in cross-cutting aspects of defence and security cooperation, technology value chain collaborations and people-to-people ties. The Ministers will take the opportunity to progress the futuristic roadmap for the India-US partnership as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joseph Biden, in their discussions in June and September this year.
Both sides will also take stock of contemporary regional issues and exchange views about shared priorities for augmenting cooperation in multilateral platforms, and through frameworks such as Quad.