{"id":28600,"date":"2018-10-24T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28600"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:26:13","slug":"u-s-postpones-22-dialogue-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-postpones-22-dialogue-with-india\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. postpones 2+2 dialogue with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/us-postpones-22-dialogue-with-india\/article24273505.ece\">U.S. postpones 2+2 dialogue with India<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The 2+2 Dialogue between the defence and foreign ministers of India and the United States scheduled for July, has been postponed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"638\"><strong><u>2+2 Dialogue:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0India and the U.S. have decided to set up a new dialogue mechanism that would include defence and foreign ministers of the two countries.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 The dialogue format would be likely called \u201c2 by 2\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The India-U.S.\u00a0<strong>\u201c2 by 2\u201ddialogue\u00a0<\/strong>will be on the lines of India-Japan 2+2 dialogue format.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The India-U.S.\u00a0<strong>\u201c2 by 2\u201ddialogue<\/strong>\u00a0would replace the existing India-U.S. Strategic and Commercial Dialogue for trade and commercial issues.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0India and the U.S. will now have a separate dialogue on commercial issues, which will not include the foreign ministers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Significance of \u201c2 by 2\u201d Dialogue\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The objective of this dialogue is to raise defence and security issues.<\/li>\n<li>It is aimed at enhancing peace and stability across the Indo-Pacific region by elevating strategic consultations in the dialogue.<\/li>\n<li>The shared priorities include job creation, improving the business and investment climate and sustaining a rules-based global order.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. has strategic consultations in this format with key partners and allies including Australia, Japan and the Philippines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The message of postponing of talks came from the U. S. Secretary of States. However, he regret for the same.<\/p>\n<p>3. Both nations agreed to identify new convenient dates to hold the dialogues.<\/p>\n<p>4. The dialogue in was designed to address bilateral issues following a Summit level meeting between President Trump and PM Modi in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>5. The talks were postponed earlier once when previous secretary of state Rex Tilleron quit in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>6. It was previously scheduled for April.<\/p>\n<p>7. However, latest postponement comes in the background of growing differences between India and the U.S. over the Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>8. Expected outcomes from the talks:<\/p>\n<p>9. The talks were expected to boost bilateral ties in the backdrop of growing disagreement move the Iran nuclear deal and the brewing tariff wars between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>10. Both sides expected to discuss on other aspects also such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent Russia-related sanctions, key impediment for India\u2019s defence modernization.<\/li>\n<li>Indian side was firmly expected to place its objections to CAATSA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Note: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, External Affairs Minister Swaraj met her French counterpart where both sides agreed to \u201cmaintain\u201d the Iran nuclear deal that allows for global trading with Tehran.<\/li>\n<li>As per the latest reports, the U.S. has given November deadline to India and Chinese companies that continue to trade with Iran disregarding U.S. Treasury\u2019s sanctions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. postpones 2+2 dialogue with India News: The 2+2 Dialogue between the defence and foreign ministers of India and the United States scheduled for July, has been postponed. 2+2 Dialogue: \u00a0India and the U.S. have decided to set up a new dialogue mechanism that would include defence and foreign ministers of the two countries. \u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-postpones-22-dialogue-with-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. postpones 2+2 dialogue with India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704720576},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}