US envoy meets Menon, discusses Clinton visit

September 26th, 2009 Clinton discusses fight against drugs with MexicoNEW YORK — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa have vowed to "keep strengthening" cooperation in the fight against drug violence and organized crime that spills across their countries' common border.

September 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a number of energy projects in Pakistan during her visit to the country, a media report said Friday. The matter was discussed during a meeting between US envoy to Pakistan Anne W.

August 4th, 2009 SEOUL - Visiting former US president Bill Clinton Tuesday met North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang and conveyed a verbal message from US President Barack Obama, South Korea's state-run Yonhap news agency reported. Kim has hosted a dinner for Clinton at the state guesthouse, according to Radio Pyongyang and Korean Central Broadcasting Station.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her residence here and discussed several issues, including cross-border terrorism and Indo-US relations. Clinton went to Gandhi's residence at 10, Janpath, after meeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will go to the US later this year while US President Barack Obama will visit India next year. The invitations were exchanged and accepted by the two leaders at a brief "pull-aside" meeting during the G8-G5 summit meeting in this quake-hit Italian town Thursday, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here.

June 26th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Less than a week after India sent its Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to Kathmandu to discuss border problems with Nepal's new government as well as the halted peace process, Pakistan is sending its foreign secretary here for talks. Salman Bashir is arriving Saturday on a three-day visit, Nepal's foreign ministry said.

June 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - U.S. Under Secretary of State William Burns on Wednesday met External Affairs Minister S.M.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik met Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and urged India to provide English translation of the Mumbai terror strike evidence Wednesday, a day after the release of Hafiz Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group that is accused of masterminding the Nov 26 carnage. "India conveyed its disappointment at the release of Saeed," Menon told reporters after the meeting.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J Burns will be in India on a three-day visit from June 10. The visit is expected to further strengthen relations between the two countries after the return of the Congress-led UPA Government in New Delhi.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and the US Friday discussed their growing strategic ties when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rang up External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and congratulated him on assuming the office.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India had been kept in the loop while US President Barrack Obama's new Af-Pak strategy on the war against terror was being formulated and would continue to be consulted in future, a top American diplomat said Wednesday. 'We consulted the Indian government very closely,' said Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke met Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) chief mentor Tarun Das here on Wednesday. The Chairman of the U.S.

March 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke is expected to visit India on April 7 to discuss how India could cooperate in US efforts to end terror threat in those two neighbouring countries. During his visit, Holbrooke will meet Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and National Security Advisor M.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in London next month. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in Washington that officials of two countries are also discussing a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to India in near future.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US and India are both hoping that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would meet on the sidelines of next month's summit of Group of 20 leading economies in London. 'We both hope there would be a meeting between the two leaders,' Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said at a press conference here Wednesday after concluding the first high-level interaction with the new Obama administration.