Washington:
After the swearing in of Donald Trump in America, the first meeting of Quad Foreign Ministers was held in Washington DC. India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar also arrived to attend this meeting. Along with Jaishankar, his new American counterpart Marco Rubio also attended this important meeting. Japan’s Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong also participated.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will hold his first bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar after the Quad meeting. S Jaishankar is here at the invitation of the US government to attend the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States. Trump took oath as the President of America on Monday.

The meeting will be held at Foggy Bottom Headquarters

The meeting between the two top diplomats representing the world’s oldest and largest democracies will take place at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department, coming on the heels of the first Quad ministerial meeting in the same building.

Quad is an informal grouping of Australia, India, Japan and America. This (Quad) was an initiative of the Trump administration in its first term. The Biden administration has elevated it to leadership level.

What is the meaning of the first meeting with India?

Rubio’s decision to hold the Quad ministerial – the first multilateral meeting – and the first bilateral meeting with India is significant given that the new administration’s first foreign contacts have traditionally been with its two neighbors Canada and Mexico or its NATO allies. Is.

Rubio, a former US senator from Florida, was unanimously approved by the US Senate by a vote of 99-0. All 99 current senators voted in favor of Rubio, including Rubio himself. There is currently a vacancy in the Senate after Vice President JD Vance resigned as US senator from Ohio.