US State Secretary Antony Blinken To Visit India On March 1, Participate In G20 Meet

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will participate in G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting and will also meet with officials of the Indian government and civil society.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit India on March 1

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New Delhi: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be on a visit to India on March 1 where he will participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, said the US Department of State. The focus of the meeting will be on strengthening multilateralism and deepening cooperation on food, energy, security, and sustainable development, it added. 

He will also meet with officials of Indian government and civil society during his visit to India. 

“On March 1, he will travel to New Delhi to participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, which will focus on strengthening multilateralism and deepening cooperation on food and energy security, sustainable development, counter-narcotics, global health, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and gender equality and women's empowerment. He will meet with Indian government officials and civil society to reaffirm our strong partnership,” read the official statement. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive in India on March 1. He will participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, which will focus on strengthening multilateralism and deepening cooperation on food, energy security, sustainable development: US Department of State pic.twitter.com/KQfXowI3Jb

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Before landing in India, Blinken will travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. 

In Kazakhstan’s Astana, Blinken will meet with senior Kazakh officials and will participate in a C5+1 Ministerial with representatives from each of the five Central Asian states. 

On Sunday, Blinken and Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference amid tensions between the two nations over the balloon gate. The meeting took place at an undisclosed location for around an hour, reported AFP citing a senior State Department official. 

The two countries warned each other over Washington downing a Chinese balloon earlier this month which flew over several strategically important locations in the US. Blinken also hit out at Beijing for aiding Russia in the war against Ukraine.