Marco Rubio will travel to India for a three-day visit covering Kolkata, Agra, Jaipur, and New Delhi. The trip will include discussions with senior Indian officials on energy security, trade, and defense cooperation. The timing aligns with the May 26 meeting of foreign ministers from the Quad, an informal security forum involving the United States, Japan, Australia, and India. The Quad has been described as an Asian version of NATO and has conducted joint military and naval exercises in the Indo-Pacific region. The visit also follows recent US actions involving the Adani fraud case and a renewed sanctions waiver related to Russian seaborne oil purchases for energy-vulnerable countries.
"United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to India on Saturday for a three-day visit taking in Kolkata, Agra, Jaipur and New Delhi. He will discuss energy security, trade and defence cooperation with senior Indian officials, US State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement on Tuesday."
"Rubio is spending a few days in India ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers from the informal Quad security forum comprising the US, Japan, Australia and India in New Delhi on May 26. The Quad, or the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, has been referred to as the Asian version of NATO. It was formed as a response to the rising power of China and has carried out joint military and naval exercises in the Indo-Pacific region."
"The visit comes days after the Trump administration moved to dismiss US criminal fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani in a case in which he is accused of bribing Indian officials with as much as $265m to secure contracts and of lying to US investors to secure a solar energy project in India, allegations that his company has long denied. The case was dropped by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) after Adani pledged a $10bn investment in the US."
"In an X post on Monday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced another 30-day extension of a sanctions waiver allowing purchases of Russian seaborne oil to aid energy-vulnerable countries hit by the Iran war, reversing plans not to grant an extension. Bessent said the Treasury was issuing the 30-day general licence after a previous waiver lapsed on May 16. It allows temporary access to Russian oil a"
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