Minutes after USA secretary of state John Kerry landed in Delhi, his cavalcade got stuck on the water logged street on the way from airport to the city on Monday evening.
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“We had done all arrangements to keep the VIP’s passage clear but unfortunately due to heavy rainfall in the city there was high volume of traffic on roads”.
Swaraj and Kerry will lead their respective sides at the Dialogue to review the progress on decisions taken last time and identify new areas of cooperation.
The second SCD Plenary will be led from the Indian side by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Nirmala Sitharaman while the USA delegation will be led by Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Commerce and Penny Pritzker.
During the day-long meeting, Sitharaman will discuss bilateral trade and investment related matters with her U.S. counterpart Pritzker.
Both sides will work together for creating a platform for promoting culture of innovation, she added.
According to an official, issues like visa and tantalization agreement are likely to figure in the meeting.
The forum’s meeting will take place as part of the second Strategic and Commercial Dialogue (S&CD) here.
Along with them, two co-chairs of CEOs Forum, Cyrus Mistry, Chairman of Tata Group from Indian side and Dave Cote, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International from United States side will also be present at S&CD plenary, the Ministry said.
The dialogue is a comprehensive mechanism to discuss and deliberate the entire gamut of cooperation between the two countries.
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In their deliberation past year, the two sides had agreed on four work streams to facilitate economic development initiatives – infrastructure collaboration and smart cities, ease of doing business, innovation and entrepreneurship and standards.
