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U.S. Secretary of State Clinton arrives in New Delhi on official visit to India

18 July 2011 19:50 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in India Monday night for a three- day visit to India, reported local TV Times Now, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Clinton will hold "strategic dialogue" talks with Indian leaders in New Delhi Tuesday before heading south to Chennai in southern India, which is seeing an economic booming with abundant foreign investment.

Her arrival in India on late Monday came five days after the Indian financial capital Mumbai was hit by a triple of blasts last Wednesday, which killed 19 and injured more than 130.

Terrorism, civil nuclear cooperation and situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan are expected to top the agenda of talks between the U.S. Secretary of State and Indian leaders, according to local media reports.