Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON, 25th Feb. According to US State Department on Friday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and India from Feb 28 till March 1, where he will hold a meeting with officials of the Union government and the civil society to reaffirm the strong partnership.
US State Department added he will travel to New Delhi on March 1 to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.
India assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1.
US State Department said in a statement that “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,” .
It said, “He will meet with Indian government officials and civil society to reaffirm our strong partnership.”
Blinken will visit Kazakhstan on February 28, where he will meet with senior Kazakh officials to deepen bilateral cooperation between US and Kazakhstan.
He will take part in a C5+1 Ministerial with representatives of each of the five Central Asian states.
The C5+1 Ministerial will focus on bolstering economic, energy and environmental, and security cooperation among the United States, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the US State Department said in its statement.
It added, “He then will participate in a C5+1 Ministerial with representatives of each of the five Central Asian states, to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Central Asian countries, and to collaborate with the region on solutions to shared global challenges.”
Blinken will meet senior government officials from the Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan to discuss opportunities for bilateral cooperation on the margins of the C5+1 ministerial.
He will then visit to Uzbekistan, where he will meet with Uzbekistani officials to further advance ties between the two nations on bilateral and regional issues, the statement added.
From Uzbekistan, Blinken will travel to India on March 1, it concluded.
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