Vance will travel to Italy and India with his family to meet with leaders and visit cultural sites

WASHINGTON – Vice President JD Vance and his household volition question to Italy and India this week and adjacent to conscionable with leaders and sojourn taste sites.

Vance's bureau said Wednesday his travel from Friday to April 24 volition see visits to Rome and New Delhi on with the Indian cities of Jaipur and Agra.

The travel comes arsenic Vance has taken connected a premier relation successful the White House's engagements abroad. The Republican vice president and his wife, Usha Vance, traveled to Greenland past month, and helium went to Paris and Munich successful February.

President Donald Trump is expected to marque his archetypal overseas travel successful May to Saudi Arabia.

In Rome this week, Vance is expected to conscionable with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is owed to sojourn the White House connected Thursday. Vance, who converted to Catholicism successful 2019, volition besides conscionable with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, according to his office, and is expected to enactment successful ceremonies astir Easter Sunday.

Vance's sojourn to India marks his archetypal travel to the country, which has added value for the 2nd family. Usha Vance is the girl of immigrants from South India.

While successful India adjacent week, Vance is expected to conscionable with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who met with Trump astatine the White House successful February.

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