Sushma Swaraj begins her 10-day U.S. Trip

Sep 25, 2014 Tushita Politics 0

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has embarked today on her 10-day trip to the U.S. with consecutive meetings scheduled with her counterparts from seven different countries, including the U.K. and the Maldives. She had met the leaders at the United Nations headquarters on Wednesday.

List of ministers she has met:

UK Secretary of State Philip Hammond, Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Ahmed Karti, Maldives Foreign Affairs Minister Dunya Maumoon, Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Borge Brende, Kyrgyz Foreign Affairs Minister Abdyldaev Erlan Bekeshovich, Greece Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos and Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Aminu Wali. Her counterparts congratulated her on and the new government of India for its tremendous victory in the recent general elections.

She expressed her gratitude by inviting them to participate in the ambitious projects and proposals unveiled by the new government, especially through their making investments in the Indian economy.

There was strong support expressed during these meetings for India’s permanent Council according to a statement issued by the Permanent Mission membership in a reformed UN Security of India to the UN.

She however, restrained from speaking to media after the meetings.

Swaraj is scheduled to meet around hundred foreign ministers or similar counterparts during her U.S. visit. She will also join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s delegation which will reach New York on September 26.

But before she joins the PM’s delegation, Swaraj will take part in meetings to be held with the Foreign Ministers of the G4, IBSA, BRICS, Commonwealth and SAARC.

The trip is definitely being seen as an exceptional opportunity to meet leaders from multiple platforms. India’s External Affairs Minister will hold bilateral meetings with Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Alberto Figueiredo Machado, Bangladeshi Foreign Affairs Minister Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali and Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi.

She could be meeting Pakistan’s National Security and Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz during the Commonwealth and SAARC meetings.

On attaining the office in External Affairs ministry, Sushma Swaraj had got congratulatory calls from most of her counterparts from various nations, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who became the first leader to call her up and conveyed that the US looked forward to “re-energise ties” with India.

Prime Minister Modi will reach New York on September 26, but before that Swaraj will hold bilateral meetings with Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry besides participating in a ministerial level meeting of the Committee on Palestine.

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