Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri to start 3-day US visit today

“Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will be visiting Washington DC from May 27-29 to meet with senior officials of the US administration,” the MEA said. “The visit is a follow-up to the prime minister’s visit to the United States in February when both sides had launched the India-US COMPACT (Catalysing Opportunities for Military Partnership, Accelerated Commerce & Technology) for the 21st Century.”

This also comes at a time when India and the US are negotiating a bilateral trade agreement, in the face of the tariffs imposed by the US President Donald Trump, paused for a 90-day period till early July.

Misri’s visit is expected to take stock of the negotiations in the bilateral trade sector as well.

His visit comes weeks after the President Trump claimed credit for “brokering” the India-Pakistan ceasefire in early May.

New Delhi has said that there has been no involvement of third parties, and the ceasefire came about after there was bilateral talks between the DGMOs.