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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, this Saturday in New Delhi, marking Rubio's first official visit to India since taking office.
The bilateral meeting, held at Sewa Teerth, lasted approximately an hour and focused on the status of the Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership between both countries, as well as issues of regional and global peace and security, according to Modi himself posted on his X account.
Modi described the meeting as an opportunity to discuss "sustained progress" in that bilateral partnership and concluded that "India and the United States will continue to work closely for the global good."
According to Indian media, Rubio also conveyed to Modi an invitation from President Donald Trump for the Prime Minister to visit the White House on a soon-to-be determined date.
The agenda of the meeting covered trade, defense, technology, and strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, areas that have defined the core of the bilateral relationship in recent years.
Rubio arrived in New Delhi after a previous stop in Kolkata, and his agenda in India goes beyond the meeting with Modi: on Sunday he is scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, and on Tuesday he will preside over the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting in New Delhi, the security forum that groups the United States, India, Australia, and Japan as a strategic counterbalance to China in the Indo-Pacific.
That multilateral meeting, confirmed by the Ministry of External Affairs of India on Friday, aims to enhance Quad cooperation, review ongoing initiatives, and address developments in the region, picking up where discussions held in Washington on July 1, 2025, left off.
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