Vice President Vance will journey subsequent week to Italy and India to fulfill with leaders there and go to cultural websites.
Vance might be joined by second woman Usha Vance and their youngsters for the journey, which is able to start Friday with a visit to Italy. The vice chairman will meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, which is able to come on the heels of Meloni’s go to to the White Home on Thursday.
Vance may even meet with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who’s the Vatican secretary of state. Vance transformed to Catholicism in 2019.
The second household will then head to India, the place the vice chairman will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The journey contains stops in New Delhi, Jaipur and Agra. The Vance household will take part in “engagements and cultural sites,” the vice chairman’s workplace stated.
Usha Vance is the primary Hindu American to function second woman.
The visits to Italy and India come because the Trump administration has levied tariffs on each nations as a part of a wider commerce warfare. India and the European Union, of which Italy is a component, confronted among the steepest “reciprocal” tariffs introduced by the Trump administration earlier than the president in the end paused these for 90 days.
This week’s journey will mark the third time Vance has traveled overseas as vice chairman, underscoring his distinguished position within the Trump administration’s overseas coverage. He beforehand traveled to Germany and France in February, the place he admonished European leaders at a safety convention.
He additionally visited Greenland final month because the Trump administration has expressed curiosity in taking management of the Danish territory, regardless of pushback from leaders in Greenland and Denmark.
