US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will maintain his first bilateral assembly with Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. Jaishankar is in US on the invitation of the US Authorities to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump because the forty seventh president of the US. Trump on Monday took oath because the president of the US.
“Secretary Rubio meets with Indian Exterior Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on the Division of State,” the State Division mentioned, releasing the schedule of the brand new Secretary of State on the primary day as the highest American diplomat. The assembly between the 2 high diplomats representing the world’s oldest and largest democracies would happen on the Foggy Backside headquarters of the State Division, quickly after the primary QUAD ministerial in the identical constructing.
“Secretary Rubio meets with Indo-Pacific Quad International Ministers on the Division of State,” mentioned the advisory.
QUAD is an off-the-cuff group of nations representing Australia, India, Japan and the US. It was an initiative of the Trump Administration within the first time period. The Biden Administration elevated it to the management degree.
Rubio’s determination to have his first conferences with the QUAD ministerial – as the primary multilateral assembly – and first bilateral with India assumes significance provided that the primary international outreach of the brand new administration historically has been with its two neighbours Canada and Mexico or with its NATO allies.
Rubio, a former US Senator from Florida, was confirmed by the US Senate by a unanimous 99-0 vote. All the present 99 senators voted in favour of Rubio, together with Rubio himself. There’s at the moment one emptiness within the Senate after Vice President J D Vance resigned because the US Senator from Ohio.
As a Senator, 53-year-old Rubio final yr launched a invoice in Congress that proposed to deal with India at par with its allies akin to Japan, Israel, Korea, and NATO allies relating to expertise transfers and assist India in its response to rising threats to its territorial integrity.
The invoice additionally sought to bar Pakistan from receiving safety help whether it is discovered to have sponsored terrorism in opposition to India. A US Senator from Florida from January 3, 2011, to January 20, 2025, Rubio is taken into account hawkish with regard to China. He’s banned from getting into China, which sanctioned him twice in 2020. The highest Republican member on the Senate Choose Committee on Intelligence, Rubio is the primary ever Latino to be the US Secretary of State.
With Company inputs