Jaishankar meets Blinken, discusses bilateral ties, Ukraine

"Pleased to meet US Secretary of State @SecBlinken on #G20FMM sidelines. Opportunity to review bilateral ties and discuss global issues," Jaishankar tweeted.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as the latter arrives to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, at RBCC in New Delhi, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (PTI)

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EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, where they discussed bilateral ties and global challenges, including the Ukraine conflict.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting at Rashtrapati Bhavan complex.

“Pleased to meet US Secretary of State @SecBlinken on #G20FMM sidelines. Opportunity to review bilateral ties and discuss global issues,” Jaishankar tweeted.

Pleased to meet US Secretary of State @SecBlinken on #G20FMM sidelines.

Opportunity to review bilateral ties and discuss global issues. pic.twitter.com/ABlE2sQBT2

— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) March 2, 2023

After attending the first session of the G20 meeting Blinken, who arrived in New Delhi Wednesday night, tweeted: “I went to the #G20 today with two imperatives: First, to ensure that the G20 — with India at the helm — advances our shared goals, and second, to demonstrate how the US, together with our partners, is acting to meet the needs of the world. We succeeded at both.”

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US State department spokesperson Ned Price said, “Secretary of State Antony J Blinken and External Affairs Minister Jaishankar met in New Delhi today to discuss strengthening the US-India Strategic Partnership.”

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“They spoke about shared efforts to elevate and expand strategic technology and defense industrial cooperation, promote food, energy and global health security, clean energy transition, counter-narcotics cooperation, and women’s economic empowerment,” he said.

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He also said that they also discussed how to mitigate the global impacts of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, the US and India’s cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, the successful launch of the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET), and regional issues.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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