Rubio Has ‘summoned His Employee’ To Mumbai, Says Rahul Gandhi Ahead Of Us State Secretary’s Visit
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked the Union government to explain why United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio had “summoned his employee” to Mumbai.
Rubio will be visiting Mumbai and Jamnagar between October 19 and October 22.
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said on Thursday that Washington was “expecting” Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and other officials to travel to Mumbai to meet Rubio.
Gor also said that Rubio will meet “some of the folks at Reliance” at Jamnagar.
“Reliance is one of the biggest oil refinery companies in the world...” Gor said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum on Thursday. “They are opening the first refinery in the United States in 50 years...”
As of Friday afternoon, New Delhi had not announced the details of Rubio’s visit.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs said that it would “make the announcement at the appropriate time as to what will be the issues to be taken up”.
During a press briefing on Friday, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that Jaishankar will hold talks with Rubio on October 20 “and attend the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States as the guest of honour”.
Jaiswal said that it had been a practice “in the last decade or so that we have hosted foreign secretaries...
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