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Harris is slated to ship her deal with on the high of a web based occasion ‘Bolstering US COVID Relief Efforts in India: Perspectives from the Diaspora’ organised by the State Department.
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- Last Updated:May 06, 2021, 09:50 IST
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Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will ship a message of solidarity with the individuals of India, because the US companions with the nation to save lives and hasten the tip of the coronavirus pandemic, the State Department has stated. Harris is slated to ship her deal with on the high of a web based occasion ‘Bolstering US COVID Relief Efforts in India: Perspectives from the Diaspora’ organised by the State Department. Harris, 56, is the primary girl, the primary Black American, and the primary South Asian American to be elected US Vice President.
“Kamala Harris will present a gap message on US solidarity with the individuals of India as we companion to save lives & hasten the tip of the pandemic,” the South and Central Asia Bureau of the State Department announced on Wednesday. The event on Friday noon local time will be hosted by Ervin Massinga, senior advisor in the South and Central Asia Bureau of the State Department.
Massinga will provide an overview of the US government’s relief efforts and panelists will discuss commercial and civil society-led efforts to address the current emergency, what support will be needed to re-open India after the second wave, and how they can align efforts to bring the two countries closer together moving forward.
Harris’s remarks would be followed by a panel discussion featuring diaspora leaders including Virginia State Senator Ghazala Hashmi; Lata Krishnan from American Indian Foundation; Indiaspora founder M R Rangaswami and Gunisha Kaur, Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, Medical Director, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights.
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