US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo greeted by Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid at VIA - Photo: PSM News
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in the Maldives on an official visit.
The US Secretary of State was received by Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid and senior officials of the government. Upon arrival, Pompeo paid a courtesy call on President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih at the President's Office. He was received at the President's Office by Chief of Staff Ali Zahir.
The visit of Secretary Pompeo is the highest-level visit by a US Government official to the Maldives, since the visit of former Secretary of State James Addison Baker III on July 24, 1992.
The regional visit of the US Secretary of State will be concluded in Indonesia.
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