Antony Blinken will visit India next week, will participate in the G20 meeting
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Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to India next week to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and meet senior Indian officials to reaffirm a strong US participation. India took over the presidency of the G20 on December 1 last year. US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday that Blinken would travel to New Delhi on March 1 to attend the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting.
The meeting will focus on strengthening multilateralism and enhancing cooperation on food and energy security, sustainable development, drug eradication, global health, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and gender equality and women’s empowerment. Price said, “He (Blinken) will meet with Indian government officials and members of civil society to reaffirm our strong partnership.” The foreign minister will be in India until March 3. Blinken will reach India after visiting two Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from February 28. He will participate in the ‘C5+1’ ministerial meeting with representatives of five Central Asian countries. In this, talks will be held on increasing economic, energy, environmental and security cooperation between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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