The U.S. Secretary of State is in India for a four-day visit to hold bilateral talks, and attend the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting India plays an important role in the U.S.’s Indo-Pacific policy, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who met and invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington later this year, said. The U.S.’s top diplomat began his four-day trip to India in Kolkata on Saturday (May 23, 2026) morning with a visit to the Missionaries of Charity, and then travelled to Delhi. Mr. Rubio will hold bilateral talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday (May 24, 2026), and attend the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) along with Ministers from Australia and Japan on Tuesday (May 26, 2026). One of his missions in India was to “renew” the Quad engagement, Mr. Rubio said, crediting Mr. Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump as drivers of the India-U.S. engagement. The two leaders are expected to meet in June when they travel to Evian in France for the G-7 summit, where India is one the countries invited to an outreach summit. In addition, Mr. Modi, who has visited the Trump White House once already in February 2025, is expected to travel to the U.S. for the G-20 summit in Mar-a-Lago in December this year.