S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Antony Blinken met in Washington DC on Tuesday.
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Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Antony Blinken met in Washington DC and mentioned working collectively to deal with regional and international challenges.
Mr Jaishankar — on his first go to to the US capital for the reason that third Modi authorities took workplace — met Blinken on Tuesday on the Foggy Backside headquarters of the US State Division.
Blinken stated after the assembly, “Collectively, the US and India are working to deal with regional and international challenges. Exterior Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and I met to debate our continued cooperation on the local weather disaster and methods we are able to promote regional safety and prosperity.”
Mr Jaishankar, in the meantime, stated, “Delighted to carry talks with Blinken in Washington DC. We adopted up on the Delaware bilateral and the QUAD conferences. Our discussions additionally lined deepening bilateral cooperation, the scenario in West Asia, latest developments within the Indian subcontinent, the Indo-Pacific and Ukraine.” The minister was referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest bilateral assembly with US President Joe Biden.
The US president hosted PM Modi at his Delaware residence for a bilateral assembly on September 21. They had been later joined by leaders from Australia and Japan for the QUAD Leaders’ Summit in Wilmington, Delaware.
In keeping with US State Division spokesperson Matthew Miller, S Jaishankar and Blinken “mentioned the USA and India’s enduring dedication to deepening bilateral ties, coordinating carefully on regional and international challenges, and advancing cooperation on crucial and rising applied sciences”.
“Blinken famous Prime Minister Modi’s August go to to Kyiv and reiterated the significance of a simply and lasting peace for Ukraine,” he stated and added that plans to increase collaboration on clear power initiatives to deal with the worldwide local weather disaster had been additionally mentioned.
Welcoming Mr Jaishankar earlier, US Secretary of State Blinken stated the heat of Biden and PM Modi’s latest assembly and the ambition within the relationship had been at a degree by no means seen earlier than.
“I believe it is a reflection of the worth that each nations connect to this partnership — a partnership in so many alternative areas, together with strategic know-how sectors, area, semiconductors, clear power, the place our nations more and more are working collectively and creating new alternatives for individuals in each India and the USA but additionally, extra broadly than that, all over the world. In fact, the crucial function that India performs on the worldwide stage, working for peace, stability, safety — right here as nicely, we’re doing increasingly collectively,” he stated.
“So, coming off the UN Normal Meeting, coming off the conferences that we had with the QUAD and bilaterally, this can be a good alternative for us to take inventory of the various points that we’re working collectively on — working collectively in a approach that betters the lives of our personal individuals and I believe makes a constructive contribution to the world,” Blinken added.
Earlier within the day, S Jaishankar had taken half in a dialogue on the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace, a high American suppose tank.
He stated of his assembly with Blinken, “Let me start by thanking you for an excellent assembly between the prime minister and the president in Delaware, for a really, excellent QUAD assembly. I believe it gave us a possibility to take inventory of the various areas the place that mechanism has progressed.” “I believe, on the bilateral aspect, there’s a lot that we’ve performed since our final assembly however there are international points to debate, together with a few of the occasions you talked about in the present day,” the exterior affairs minister added.
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