Foreign Secretary to visit US next week to hold discussions with top officials of the Obama Administration on a wide range of bi-lateral and regional issues.<br/> <br/>Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will visit the United States next week to hold discussions with top officials of the Obama Administration on a wide range of bi-lateral and regional issues. She will be visiting Washington and New York during her stay here from 14th to 19th of March. <br/> <br/>Mrs Rao will be co-chairing the seventh meeting of the India-US High Technology Cooperation Group with Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Dennis F Hightower during her stay in the US. This is the first meeting of the Group after the new administration assumed office in the US. <br/> <br/>Both sides hope to consolidate the progress made in the last five years and move ahead to significantly expand bilateral trade in strategic and high technology areas. <br/> <br/>The meeting will give US and Indian industry representatives an opportunity to discuss ways in which the two governments can facilitate trade in specific industry sectors and make suggestions. <br/> <br/>India and the US had agreed on establishing a Strategic Dialogue to be co-chaired by the External Affairs Minister and the US Secretary of State and also a revised Dialogue Architecture last year during the visit of Hillary Clinton to India. <br/> <br/>Mrs Rao in her meetings in the State Department will review the progress made on various elements of the revised dialogue architecture and also discuss the way ahead in preparation for the visit of External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to the US later this year for the next round of Strategic Dialogue.<br/><br/>