Blinken Meets India’s Top Diplomat, Skips Canada Row in Readout

Antony Blinken, right, with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on Sept. 28. Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

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By Nasreen Seria

September 29, 2023 at 2:14 AM UTC

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Indian counterpart Thursday as tensions between two of Washington’s key allies, Canada and India, grow over the killing of a Sikh leader.

The official readout of the meeting between Blinken and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Washington didn’t reference the dispute. It said the two discussed a “full range of issues,” including outcomes of India’s Group of 20 presidency and plans to create an economic corridor linking India with the Middle East and Europe.