Jha Washington: Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla known as on United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken right here on Thursday throughout which they mentioned bilateral ties, regional and international points together with the present state of affairs in Afghanistan. This was the primary high-level dialogue between the officers of the 2 international locations after the American withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan on August 31.

Discussions touched on bilateral ties and the state of affairs in Afghanistan, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi mentioned in a tweet after the assembly. Shringla, who arrived right here a day earlier from New York, had a sequence of conferences all through Thursday, together with along with his American counterpart Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman.

Excellent interplay this morning with Blinken and Sherman, tweeted India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, who attended the conferences together with Shringla on the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department. Shringla and Sherman mentioned a broad vary of shared priorities, together with continued coordination on Afghanistan, strengthening Indo-Pacific cooperation by the Quad, addressing the local weather disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic, and preparations for upcoming dialogues, corresponding to the two+2 Ministerial, mentioned State Department Spokesperson Ned Price.