Confident that India will proceed to form large debates of our occasions: EAM Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has expressed confidence that India will proceed to form the “big debates of our times” as he interacted with Permanent Representative Ambassador T S Tirumurti and different officers and diplomats from India to the United Nations.
Jaishankar arrived in New York on Sunday night on his first go to to the US after India entered the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member in January this yr and can meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday.
“A productive strategy session with @ambtstirumurti and our UN team in New York @IndiaUNNewYork. Confident that India will continue to shape the big debates of our times,” Jaishankar tweeted on Monday after his assembly with Tirumurti, Deputy Permanent Representative Ambassador Okay Nagaraj Naidu and diplomats from the Permanent Mission of India to the UN.
“Grateful to EAM @DrSJaishankar for guidance in focussing our efforts in @UN and in Security Council for 2021-22,” Tirumurti tweeted.
From New York, Jaishankar will journey to Washington the place he’s anticipated to fulfill US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
A State Department spokesperson mentioned Blinken and Jaishankar would focus on a variety of points, together with COVID-19, efforts to strengthen Indo-Pacific cooperation by the Quad grouping, enhancing the UN and multilateral cooperation.
“The Secretary looks forward to meeting Minister Jaishankar during his visit, and to discussing a broad range of issues, including COVID-19 relief, efforts to strengthen Indo-Pacific cooperation through the Quad, enhanced UN and multilateral cooperation, and a range of other shared regional security and economic priorities,” the spokesperson mentioned.
In addition to assembly his counterpart, Jaishankar is scheduled to fulfill US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, different senior officers of the Biden administration, influential lawmakers, think-tanks, leaders of the company sector and members of the Indian American group.
Neither the State Department nor the Ministry of External Affairs have introduced the day and timing of the Jaishankar-Blinken assembly.
Blinken on Monday left for a fast journey to the Middle East as a part of the efforts of the Biden administration’s peace course of within the area.