US: India is a key partner in Indo-Pacific on issues

Washington: Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US Department of State, Vedant Patel on Wednesday (local time) said that India has been a key partner during the US President Joe Biden’s administration.

When asked about the meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar that took place in the end of November in Italy at the G7, Patel said that the US has a close partnership with their Indian counterparts.

“We have a close partnership with our counterparts in India. Of course, a range of those are security issues, trade issues, of course consular issues as well, including visas. We read out that meeting with External Affairs Minister Jaishankar... Over the course of our time in the Biden administration, India has been a key partner in the IndoPacific on a number of shared issues, and we continue to look forward to working with them in our time in this administration,” he said. Blinken met with External Affairs Minister Jaishankar on the margins of the G7 meeting in Fiuggi, Italy.