External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will meet United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today, the State Department said.

It will be the first bilateral meeting and the highest-level exchange between India and the US after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington in June.

The meeting also comes ahead of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis's visit to India next week.

Swaraj is here for the 72nd annual session of the UN General Assembly.

She is scheduled to address the world body on Saturday.  -- PTI

IMAGE: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Reuters