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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrives in New York, to meet UN Secretary

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived here following his visit to Washington DC and will meet United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday.India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti received Jaishankar on Wednesday evening on his arrival here.

Tirumurti tweeted that Jaishankar would “be meeting UN Secretary General @antonioguterres during his visit”.Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were in Washington DC for the 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue with their US counterparts Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd J Austin III.From DC, Singh travelled to Hawaii for a visit to the headquarters of United States Indo-Pacific Command.

He will also visit the headquarters of the US Army Pacific and Pacific Air Forces during his brief stay in Hawaii.