Indian external affairs minister s jaishankar is on a five-day trip to the United States - uncle met the UN secretary-general Antonio guterres the secretary-general expressed solidarity with the government and the people of India in their efforts against the recent wave of covid-19 pandemic Antonio guterres and jaishankar also discussed major challenges posed by proving 19 pandemic and further underlined the need and the importance of finding urgent and effective Global vaccine solution jaishankar father appreciated the efforts of the Secretary General to facilitate vaccine for all am also a price the Secretary General of India's efforts to meet its various commitments further conveying in their support to back Gutierrez for his second term this is Jess from curse first face-to-face interaction with the UN Chief sales India enter the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member India's
with permanent representative ambassador from India to the United Nations the extreme OT other officials and diplomats from India to the UN for also part of the meet Mr. jaishankar is also scheduled to hold a key bilateral meet with us Secretary of State Anthony blinken in Washington jaishankar and the Biden Administration is expected to majorly focused their discussion on Covert related cooperation weekly meeting is to ensure that supply of raw materials from the US for the manufacture of vaccines in India continues uninterrupted it is likely to be one of the beneficiaries of this talk of vaccines u.s. is willing to share
the dogs are expected to revolve around India's pitch to security and use vaccines particularly AstraZeneca New Delhi is also looking at joint production of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine in collaboration with the US in India and ways to help manufacturers like serum Institute of India boost production remember the US Embassy of already clarified that private sector production talks are underway between pharmaceutical companies in order to make this happen other
bilateral issues are also likely to be on the agenda leaders are expected to discuss resilient Global Supply chains as well as the indo-pacific region in the backdrop of China's growing belligerence in the region Mr. jaishankar is also scheduled to meet with us National Security adviser Jake Sullivan other senior officials of the Biden Administration the meeting is Mr. jaishankar first visit to the us since the new President Joe Biden assumed office in in January