TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The inaugural ‘two-plus-two dialogue’ between India and the United States will be held on September 6 in New Delhi, the US State Department announced on Friday. Last month, the US had postponed the much-awaited dialogue due to “unavoidable reasons”.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary James Mattis would travel to India for the dialogue. “The United States is pleased to announce that the inaugural US-India ‘2+2 dialogue’ will be held in New Delhi, India, on September 6,” State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement.
Pompeo and Mattis “look forward to meeting with their Indian counterparts,” Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and Minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman, “to discuss strengthening strategic, security and defence cooperation” as the US and India jointly address challenges in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, Nauert said.
The dialogue was announced last year during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House. After June last year, the two countries have tried to schedule the dialogue many times with several dates having been considered.
