India and the United States will hold their third 2+2 ministerial meeting in New Delhi next week, the US said Tuesday. The state secretary Mike Pompeo and the defence chief of US Mike Esper will travel to New Delhi for the day-long in-person meetings with their Indian counterparts S Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh on October 27. Talking about the upcoming dialogue, Esper said that India will be the most consequential partner for the US. This will be the third edition of the India-US 2+2 that with India hosting the first in 2018 in New Delhi; the United States hosted the second in Washington DC in 201.9.