External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio here on Monday for bilateral discussions, as the high-level 80th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) kicks in.
This will be the first face-to-face meeting between Rubio and Jaishankar following President Donald Trump’s imposition of an additional 25 per cent tariff on India for Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, taking the total levies imposed on India by the Trump White House to 50 per cent.
According to the daily schedule issued by the State Department on Sunday, Rubio will meet Jaishankar in New York City on Monday morning.
They had last met in July in Washington DC for the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The bilateral meeting comes on the same day India and the US will hold discussions towards achieving an early conclusion of a trade agreement.
A delegation led by Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal will meet with the US side on Monday in the city. “The delegation plans to t
