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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio successful Washington connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026) up of an inaugural ministerial connected captious minerals.
Mr. Rubio welcomed Mr. Jaishankar astatine the Department of State connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026) afternoon.
Mr. Jaishankar is connected a sojourn to the United States from February 2-4 and volition enactment successful the Critical Minerals Ministerial convened by Mr. Rubio connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026).
During the visit, Mr. Jaishankar volition besides clasp meetings with elder members of the U.S. administration, the Ministry of External Affairs had said.
The gathering betwixt Mr. Jaishankar and Mr. Rubio comes a time aft Trump announced connected Truth Social that India and the U.S. agreed to a commercialized deal, nether which Washington volition bring down reciprocal tariff connected Delhi from 25 to 18%.
