Watch as Blinken holds news conference after meeting Russian foreign minister
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch from New Delhi as Antony Blinken holds a press conference during his trip to India.
It comes after the US secretary of state met with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov earlier on Thursday, 2 March.
The brief interaction between the pair was the first such meeting since the beginning of the war in Ukraine this time last year.
According to a State Department official travelling with Blinken they spoke for around 10 minutes.
Before India, he travelled to Uzbekistan for a brief tour of Central Asia, where he spoke with senior Uzbek officials.
While in New Delhi, he is expected to attend a two-day meeting of the foreign ministers from the Group of 20 largest industrialized and developing countries.
China and Russia are among those countries.
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