Jaishankar to travel for ASEAN and Quad meetings this week

In Vientiane, the External Affairs Minister will attend ASEAN-India meet, as well as the East Asia Summit, which will include Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov Amid the ongoing budget session, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be busy with a flurry of bilateral and multilateral meetings this week, including some with his counterparts from U.S., U.K., Japan, Australia, China and Russia. On Thursday, shortly after hosting the U.K. Foreign Secretary in Delhi, Mr. Jaishankar will travel to Vientiane on Thursday as Laos hosts the annual outreach meetings of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from July 25 to 27, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced. In Vientiane, the External Affairs Minister will attend ASEAN-India meet, as well as the East Asia Summit (EAS), which will include Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. He will also attend ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), with more than 25 countries, including south Asian countries Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and hold a number of bilateral meetings with his counterparts on the sidelines. Source:thehindu.com