In the midst of Washington’s riots over the National Security Council, including the National Security Advisor’s Office, Michael Waltz postponed his visit to India scheduled for next week. | Photo Credit: AP
In the midst of Washington’s riots over the National Security Council, including the National Security Advisor, the US National Security Advisor (NSA), Michael Waltz, postponed his visit to India scheduled for next week, a number of Hindu resources. Mr. Waltz was to visit the new Delhi from 21 to 23 April for official meetings and to address the annual forum in the US-India sponsored by the Ministry for External Affairs and organized by the Ananta Center.
The US office of NSA handed over Mea and a few days ago to the NSA office, Doval that he would postpone his visit to Delhi for the time being, the sources said. It was expected that Mr. Waltz would organize a number of different meetings during his visit and also call the premiere of Narendra Modi.
In addition to the meeting of Minister NSA Doval and the Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar, Mr. Waltz was expected to attend a preliminary meeting of transforming relations using strategic technology (trustworthy) mechanism, which was also in 2023.
His predecessor managed by Biden, Jake Sullivan, visited Delhi in January this year for a farewell visit.
Officials stated that it was not formally announced since the Valčík visit, it would be difficult to comment on the reasons for the cancellation. Speculation was developed in the American newspaper that Mr. Waltz’s position was slight after the “Signalgate” controversy, where he received the blame for unintentionally adding a senior journalist to the signal of the message to send. Details of the upcoming bomber operations at Houthis in Yemen, along with Vice President JD Vance, Defense Minister Peter Hegset, National Intelligence Director (DNI) TULSI GABBARD, and other higher members of the US President Trump, were discussed in the cottage.
The reports added that Mr. Waltz had maintained several other such uncertain signal chats for other foreign policy issues concerning Ukraine, China and Gaza, and that the National Security Advisor used his personal Gmail responsible for sensitive communication. While the White House stood by Mr. Waltz, the news was significantly embarrassed by the administration and could be the reason for Mr. Waltz’s decision to postpone the visit of India.
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According to sources, it can now overpart its visit to the next few months and could timing it together with further issuing Indus-X, cooperation between the US Ministry of Defense and the Indian Defense Ministry, which connects companies involved in defense innovation and strategic technologies together.
Officials stated that there was a certain effort to find out whether the vice-chairman of JD Vance could fill in the place of Mr. Waltz on the Indo-US Forum. Mr. Vance travels to India for a predominantly “private” visit with his wife and their three children, visits tourist destinations in northern India, as well as USha Chilluri Vance’s Home State of Andhra Pradesh. Vince is expected to host Prime Minister Modi 21 April before Mr. Modi will leave for Saudi Arabia (22-23 April).
Published – April 13, 2025 21:32
