US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and His Wife Jeanette D. Rubio To Visit Delhi Soon! | News18

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Mr. Rubio to see see them off and uh still people representatives from uh US Consulate are uh saying no reactions from their end. And there'll be absolutely no reaction from their end.

[00:00:15]We members of the press requested them to react on behalf of Mr. Rubio, but they refused. Well, absolutely the visuals these are very significant visuals Sherin that you know the visit is now over and it was uh I think Mr. Rubio has spent close to 20 minutes there >> Beautiful visuals as well Aman on that because yes, uh Nuns waving to the convoy. I also saw some children as well as part of that. So, beautiful visual powerful one at that, but uh let's go back to Anando there. Anando, when we talk about the visit at Kolkata, I believe it is almost over. Is he now heading towards the national capital?

[00:00:52]What are you picking up?

[00:00:55]What uh see uh Sherin my understanding says it's 9:20. Uh this is a considerable amount of time. Uh my sources within the uh Kolkata police say say that he'll be going straight to uh Victoria Memorial.

[00:01:09]Uh his schedule at Victoria Memorial was 10:30. It may be preponed by now because Victoria Memorial is around five around five kilometers from here. So, it won't be taking with all roads cleared for him. It won't be taking more than uh five to seven minutes for him. So, he'll be going straight to Victoria Memorial.

[00:01:28]That's my understanding because he has flight at 11:20. Uh that's the story that that's the breaking that Aman had uh since morning and that's the CNN News18 exclusive that Aman broke. Entire schedule since morning nobody no no other channel had the entire schedule that Aman Sharma uh the news editor of News18 had that for our viewers. So, uh my sense is that he'll go to we'll go to uh Victoria Memorial. He'll spend some time over there. He'll click some pictures with his spouse over there as he will do with in in in Udaipur as he'll do in Agra Taj Mahal and then he'll go to Kolkata airport where he'll fly off and take take the flight off to Delhi where the all important meeting is scheduled at 2:00 p.m. where all eyes are at the 2:00 p.m. meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Well, it would be lovely Anindya if you can actually go and speak to some of those children and the nuns who were waving to Marco Rubio while he was leaving. It would be great if you can speak to them and we'll come back to you when you have those voices from us from the ground and Siddhant and Akanksha. So, great visuals. The two visits, the two scheduled visits to Kolkata. We have now seen Marco Rubio going to both of them.

[00:02:48]Maybe he goes to Victoria Memorial next.

[00:02:50]We don't know about that, but clearly now the action will shift to Delhi where we'll be having the big meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 2:00 p.m.

[00:02:59]Of course. So, Akanksha is here with me.

[00:03:01]Akanksha, how do you look at his visit to New Delhi? First thing's first, going to call on Prime Minister Modi. Later in the day going to do events at the US Embassy. Tomorrow participating in the Independence Day celebrations. Agra, Jaipur, so on and so forth. How do you look at this visit and the way it has been planned Akanksha? Would like you to weigh in on that especially you know going to four Indian cities, Agra, Jaipur, mix of both leisure and work. How do you look at this the planning of this? You know, I can't help but compare it with the visit of the US Vice President J.D. Vance's visit which was more about color and pageantry. And over here this seems like a perfect blend of business and of course a lot of color. But and and that's why Kolkata has happened.

[00:03:48]There's Agra also on the itinerary, but very interestingly, he will mean hard business. We didn't see that kind of hard business talk happen when US President This is a mix of spirituality, business religion right? Religion, leisure, and hard talk when it comes to business. There's of course going to be focus on Indo-Pacific through quad, but more importantly, energy will feature as one big agenda. Do you think is appropriate for this visit of Secretary Rubio?

[00:04:20]Reset, repair, or reload? Oh, very interesting question, and you've thrown a googly at me with that. I think this is a reset. This is a reset. Even more so, as much as many people may not want to agree with us over here because it just seems that we've been very um the bilateral trade agreement, at least the first tranche of it has been a jinxed of sorts, and we are waiting for that signing to happen. Much of it, of course, as we all know, has taken has been on the back burner also because of the current situation in West Asia, but maybe with Secretary Rubio's visit to the national capital, we can expect some kind of forward movement on the trade front as well. Our energy security partnership, I heard you have that discussion with Aman and Sherene also about how the United States is now pitching Venezuela. Venezuela will come with its own set of challenges. It Yes, but it will come with its own set of challenges because they are resurrecting a dead market when it comes to oil in Venezuela right now, and that's going to come with its own set of challenges, but even US their own energy, that is also a viable option, but again, it has its own set of challenges. It's a long route you're looking at. Is it in terms of logistics? Is it Is it as Yes, is it a reset? What is exactly the purpose of this visit of Marco Rubio? All this will be decoded only here at CNN News18. Many thanks for tuning in to this. We'll keep coming back to you after this back break.