India to host 3rd version of 2+2 ministerial dialogue with US on Oct 27: MEA

India will host the third India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on 27 October, 2020 in Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs informed on Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper will be visiting India on 26-27 October 2020 to participate in the Dialogue.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and EAM S Jaishankar will lead the delegations from the Ministry of Defence and MEA respectively.

The first two-plus-two dialogue was held in Delhi in September 2018 after the



mechanism was approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump.

The second edition of the dialogue took place in Washington in December last year.

The new framework of the ministerial dialogue was initiated in order to provide a forward-looking vision for the strategic partnership between the two countries.

In the third edition of talks, both sides are also expected to discuss the situation in the Indo-Pacific region as well as in India's neighbourhood besides key bilateral issues.