While speaking at Hudson University, Jaishankar underscored that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had initially levelled allegations privately and then publically from the House of Commons and added India too replied to the allegations in the same manner.
The ongoing diplomatic row between India and Canada was expected to be on the agenda of the bilateral meeting. However, it is unclear as of now whether Jaishankar and Blinken addressed the issue during their discussions.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is set to meet his US counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington. During the meeting, the recent political skirmish between India and Canada is likely to come up for discussion.
Antony Blinken said that the US is deeply concerned about Trudeau's claims about India's involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist, designated as a terrorist in India, and hoped that New Delhi cooperates with the Canadian investigation.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is on a visit to the United States where he will attend the UN General Assembly and take part in other key meetings.
"Every single place that this Wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed," said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the group's involvement with Niger coup leaders.
Notably, the critical remarks from Biden came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Chinese President Xi Jinping as he wrapped up a two-day tour on Monday.
Although it was earlier expected that the meeting would not yield any breakthrough in cooling tensions between the world's two largest economies, it wasn't speculated that the Biden administration would take a U-turn over the Taiwan issue.
The two sides both said Qin had accepted an invitation from Blinken to visit Washington but Beijing made clear that “the China-US relationship is at the lowest point since its establishment.”
All eyes are on US Secretary Antony Blinken who arrived in Beijing as he undertook a daunting task to cool soaring US-China tensions.
Blinken said that the trade relations between the two nations reached $191 billion last year-- making the US, India's largest trading partner.
"We’ve never been shy of talking, and we hope the Chinese will meet us halfway on this," said a US diplomat.
Notably, Russian Minister Lavrov and US's Blinken are scheduled to attend a meeting at the UN Headquarters on April 24-25.
The relationship between Russia and the US is going through its worst phase since President Joe Biden visited war-torn Ukraine in February.
Ukraine-Russia war: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during G20 summit in Delhi, slammed Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov for overlooking the concerns expressed over ongoing war. The US is attempting to push New Delhi in a leading role to mediate to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Speaking about his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in New Delhi, Secretary of State Blinken said, "I spoke briefly with Russian FM Lavrov today. I urged Russia to reverse its irresponsible decision and return to implementing the new START Treaty."
Although the theme of the ongoing G20 Summit was LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment), the agenda was marred by the ongoing war.
The top US official said that America also approached other nations such as China and India to soft-soap Russia with their diplomatic leverage and added the results were positive.
G20 foreign ministers meeting: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a series of meetings with senior Indian officials on several agendas, including deepening cooperation in trade.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who was currently in Munich for a security conference spoke to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Saturday.
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