Washington [US], February 27 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday launched into a visit to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and India. Taking to his official Twitter deal with, Blinken said that he’ll attend the G20 Ministerial in India.
Blinken famous that he appears to be like ahead to advancing Central Asian partnerships. He tweeted, “Today I’m embarking on a trip to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and India. It will be my first time as Secretary visiting Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan — and I look forward to advancing our Central Asian partnerships. From there, I’ll head to India for the G20 Ministerial.”Blinken is on an official go to to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and India from February 28 to March 3, the US Department of State mentioned in an announcement. On March 1, Antony Blinken will go to India to take part within the G20 Foreign Ministers assembly.
He will attend a bilateral assembly with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the sidelines of the G20 assembly in New Delhi, US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu mentioned in a digital briefing on February 24.
“They will talk about our strategic partner partnership but really focus on how we’re working together in the Asian Quad, in the G20, what we’re doing on defence cooperation, and the Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies that is being run out of the White House and the prime minister’s office,” Donald Lu mentioned.
Blinken and Jaishankar will even meet with their Australian and Japanese counterparts who’re part of the QUAD Grouping, the US official knowledgeable reporters. Donald Lu mentioned, “On March 3rd, the Secretary will also participate in a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Asian Quad, which is the United States, India, Japan, and Australia.” Blinken will even take part in a panel on the Raisina Dialogue.
“I’m not aware that they’ve ever had an hour-long public event where the foreign ministers have had a chance to talk about the quad and to demonstrate how is getting tangible and concrete things done in the Indo-Pacific,” Donald Lu mentioned throughout a digital briefing.
“I think we’re going to hear about what we’re doing on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief. We’ll hear about what we’re doing to improve security in the Indo-Pacific, in the Maritime Domain Awareness space. We will talk about achievements on vaccine diplomacy, and then you’ll hear about the launch of the Quad fellows programme, and a recent business and investment forum,” Donald Lu mentioned.
The US Department of State in an announcement mentioned, “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.”Before travelling to India, Blinken will go to Kazakhstan’s Astana on February 28, the place he’ll meet with senior Kazakh officers to deepen bilateral cooperation between US and Kazakhstan. He will even take part in a C51 Ministerial with representatives of every of the 5 Central Asian states.
On the margins of the C51 ministerial, Blinken will meet senior authorities officers from the Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan to debate alternatives for bilateral cooperation, , in keeping with the assertion launched by the US Department of State.
After his go to to Uzbekistan, the US Secretary of State will journey to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the place he’ll meet with Uzbekistani officers to additional advance ties between the 2 nations on bilateral and regional points. (ANI)