{"id":300640,"date":"2018-07-20T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T08:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300640"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T08:12:58","slug":"india-us-to-hold-22-dialogue-on-september-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-us-to-hold-22-dialogue-on-september-6\/","title":{"rendered":"India, US to hold 2+2 dialogue on September 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300641 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/usindia-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-696x351.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-833x420.jpg 833w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/>India-US first 2+2 dialogue is scheduled to take place in New Delhi on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_901569716\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 6<\/span><\/span>, US State Department announced on July 20. Last month, the US had postponed the much-awaited dialogue due to &#8220;unavoidable reasons&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement, &#8220;The United States is pleased to announce that the inaugural US-India 2+2 Dialogue will be held in New Delhi, India, on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_901569717\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 6<\/span><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dialogue is seen as a track to boost the strategic ties between the two nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The high-level meeting which will take place between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with their American counterparts US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defence James Mattis will be their first simultaneous meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the country&#8217;s will &#8220;discuss strengthening strategic, security, and defence cooperation as the United States and India jointly address challenges in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond,&#8221; US State Department said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the sides are also expected to discuss a whole range of issues such as defence purchases \u2014 India is keen to buy, for instance, armed Guardian drones \u2014 coproduction and co-development, cooperation on counter-terrorism, which is always accorded high priority by the two nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The new dialogue was announced between India and the US during Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s visit to US on June 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India-US first 2+2 dialogue is scheduled to take place in New Delhi on September 6, US State Department announced on July 20. Last month, the US had postponed the much-awaited dialogue due to &#8220;unavoidable reasons&#8221;. The US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement, &#8220;The United States is pleased to announce that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3806,293,1161,3805,1277,3807,3808],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300642,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300640\/revisions\/300642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}