Washington: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will hold his first bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar here later Tuesday.

Jaishankar is here at the invitation of the US Government to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Trump on Monday took oath as the president of the US.

“Secretary Rubio meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar at the Department of State,” the State Department said, releasing the schedule of the new Secretary of State on the first day as the top American diplomat.

The meeting between the two top diplomats representing the world’s oldest and largest democracies would take place at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department, soon after the first QUAD ministerial in the same building.

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