{"id":306501,"date":"2018-12-03T06:46:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306501"},"modified":"2018-12-03T06:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:46:46","slug":"defense-minister-sitharaman-to-hold-bilateral-meeting-with-us-counterpart-dec-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/defense-minister-sitharaman-to-hold-bilateral-meeting-with-us-counterpart-dec-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Sitharaman to hold bilateral meeting with US counterpart Dec 3"},"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-299648 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1-403x420.jpg 403w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is headed for the United States for a five-day visit to hold a bilateral meeting with United States Secretary of Defense James N Mattis at Pentagon on December 3. She will also hold a discussion on new defense deals and projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She will later visit the Indo-Pacific Command headquarters at Honolulu in Hawaii during her official trip till December 7, said officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;@DefenseMinIndia arrives in Washington DC for a 5-day visit. Meets officials, visit Museums of Natural History, Gallery of Art, Air &amp; Space. @nsitharamanoffc will be laying a wreath at National Cemetery b4 Bilateral meeting with Secy of Def James N Mattis at Pentagon on Day 2,&#8221; Ministry of Defense tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior government officials reportedly said that the defense minister will be interacting with key defense officials, thinkers and strategists on the west coast where she will be meeting a select group at Stanford University with former US National Security Advisor H R McMaster being the host. US Defence Secretary Mattis is also part of this network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During her visit, she will also be visiting the highly rated Defense Innovation Unit in California in a bid to link Indian defense startups with this unit which aims to explore synergies between innovative US private sector firms and the Pentagon on latest technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The defense minister is expected to pitch for a presidential waiver for the S-400 contract on the ground that the deal had been in the works since much before CAATSA (Countering America&#8217;s Adversaries through Sanctions Act) came into force in August 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is headed for the United States for a five-day visit to hold a bilateral meeting with United States Secretary of Defense James N Mattis at Pentagon on December 3. She will also hold a discussion on new defense deals and projects. She will later visit the Indo-Pacific Command headquarters at Honolulu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5666,10041,10040,4753,4585,4582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306501"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306504,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306501\/revisions\/306504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}