Washington:
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Foreign Minister S. Will hold his first bilateral meeting with Jaishankar. Jaishankar has come here on the invitation of the US government to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Donald Trump as the 47th President of America. Trump took oath as President of America on Monday.

Releasing the schedule of the new Secretary of State’s first day as the top US diplomat, the State Department said, “Rubio met with Indian Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar at the State Department.”

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.

“Secretary Rubio met with the foreign ministers of the Indo-Pacific Quad at the State Department,” the advisory said.

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 elevated it to leadership level.

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 J.D. Vance resigned as US Senator from Ohio.