US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 23 and briefed him on bilateral cooperation, according to the Prime Minister's Office. The account listed defence, strategic technologies, trade and investment, energy security and connectivity among the areas covered in the discussion.
Education and people-to-people ties also featured in Rubio's briefing. On regional and global affairs, he presented the US perspective, including on West Asia. Modi reiterated India's support for peace efforts and resolution through dialogue and diplomacy. The readout attributes that position to India rather than describing an agreed settlement.
Modi asked Rubio to convey greetings to President Donald Trump and said he looked forward to continued exchanges. In his accompanying public message, Modi placed the meeting within the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and described discussion of regional and global peace and security. The account announced no separate signed instrument.
The energy-security context includes the Strait of Hormuz, between Oman and Iran, linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea. In a June 2025 analysis, the US Energy Information Administration estimated that 20 million barrels of oil a day passed through it in 2024, approximately one-fifth of global petroleum-liquids consumption.
The same historical assessment put Asia's share at 84% of the route's crude oil and condensate shipments. China, India, Japan and South Korea together received 69% of those flows. Around one-fifth of global liquefied-natural-gas trade also used the passage in 2024, predominantly shipments from Qatar.
Bypass infrastructure was limited. EIA estimated available Saudi and UAE pipeline capacity at about 2.6 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline connects Abqaiq with Yanbu on the Red Sea; the UAE route reaches Fujairah outside Hormuz. These dated figures establish the transport concentration behind energy-security concerns, not shipping conditions on the meeting day.
