The second India-Afghanistan-United States Trilateral Dialogue will take place in New Delhi on February 19.
The delegations will be led by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Jawed Ludin, the U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake Jr., and Indian Additional Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran) Y. K. Sinha, respectively.
Given that India is currently the largest aid donor in Afghanistan, the three sides will deliberate on measures to deal with common challenges and opportunities, counter-terrorism measures, and improving regional trade.
This meeting comes within days of U.S. President Barack Obama announcing the withdrawal of 34,000 American troops from Afghanistan in one year, at the State of the Union Address.
The previous India-Afghanistan-United States Trilateral Dialogue took place on September 25, 2012, in New York, United States.