White House said the United States and India have a strong bilateral relationship, and that’s including trade as well….reports Asian Lite News
The White House on Wednesday said the US is committed to continuing working together with India in groups like Quad to advance economic growth for the two countries and “expand cooperation of our shared priorities.”
“We’re committed to continuing working together and in groups like the Quad to advance economic growth for our two countries and expand cooperation of our shared priorities,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing on Wednesday. The Quad is a strategic forum comprising India, Japan, the US, and Australia. Its primary objective is to develop a new strategy to keep the critical sea routes in the Indo-Pacific free of any influence.
“The United States and India have a strong bilateral relationship, and that’s including trade as well,” the White House Press Secretary added.
Meanwhile, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently said that India and the United States are building the foundations for a strong, peaceful and harmonious global community. She said she also wished that the relationship between the two countries grows from “strength to strength”.
Speaking at a reception at India House, which was hosted by Indian Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Sitharaman said, “We are together and building strong foundations for a strong, peaceful and harmonious global community”.
Earlier, Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu said that Indian community members across America have been working to advance bilateral commercial, economic and people-to-people ties.
“A delightful afternoon with Indian community members from across the US who have been working to advance bilateral commercial, economic & people to people ties,” the Indian Ambassador tweeted.
Earlier this week, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a telephonic conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and discussed regional as well as global issues.
Taking to his official Twitter handle, Jaishankar stated that they noted the steady progress in India-US ties. He tweeted, “A warm conversation, as always with US Secretary of State @SecBlinken this morning. Discussed current regional and global issues. Noted the steady progress in our bilateral ties.” Earlier in March, S Jaishankar held a meeting with Antony Blinken. The two leaders discussed measures to mitigate the global impacts of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Blinken and Jaishankar held talks on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi.
During the meeting, Blinken spoke to Jaishankar and shared his views on tackling global and regional challenges. In a statement, US Department of State spokesperson Ned Price said that Blinken met with Jaishankar to discuss how India and the US can expand technology and defence cooperation and increase food energy, and health security.
Ned Price also informed that Blinken and Jaishankar spoke about efforts to elevate and expand strategic technology and defence industrial cooperation and promote food, energy, and global health security. The two leaders also held discussions to promote clean energy transition, counternarcotics cooperation and women’s economic empowerment.
During his visit to India, Blinken attended the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and Quad Foreign Ministers meet on the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi.
During his visit to India, Blinken said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is right that there are real challenges to multilateralism and added that they are directly coming from Russia.
Addressing a presser in India, Blinken said that PM Modi was right that there were challenges to multilateralism. He blamed Russia for creating problems. He pointed out, “We see that playing out at the UN, two countries blocking…”
“PM Modi is right that there are challenges to the multilateral system. And those challenges in many ways are coming directly from Russia which is violating the principles that lie at the heart of that system,” Blinken said. (ANI)