NEW YORK: (Jan 9) The US Department of State has highlighted a “mission-defining challenge” during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit here in November amid the US government shutdown, saying it put in a “bold contingency plan” to ensure his protection and security.
An article dated December 30, 2025 by Supervisory Special Agent Gabriel Macias said that when thousands of commercial flights were grounded due to the US government shutdown last year, Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) special agents from the Dignitary Protection Division (DP), New York Field Office (NYFO), and Buffalo Resident Office (BFRO) faced a “mission-defining challenge.”
Jaishankar, who was in Canada for the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting on November 11-12, 2025, had then travelled to New York, where he held a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the UN headquarters.
Source: PTI News
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