Quoting Modi on Ukraine, US says India global strategic partner

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ India is a global strategic partner of the United States, the Biden administration said Monday as Secretary of State Antony Blinken left for New Delhi to attend a host of key conferences including the G-20 foreign ministers’ meeting.

India is a global strategic partner of the United States, the Biden administration said Monday as Secretary of State Antony Blinken left for New Delhi to attend a host of key conferences including the G-20 foreign ministers’ meeting. Blinken will also attend a Quad ministerial meeting and hold a bilateral talk with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

“India is a global strategic partner of ours. We have a wide, broad, deep relationship with India. There will be a lot on the agenda in the bilateral relationship and in the multilateral engagements he takes part in on the margins of the G20,” Ned Price, State Department Spokesperson, told reporters at his daily news conference.

“We share a vision with India of a free and open Indo-Pacific, and India is a key partner of ours bilaterally, in the context of the Quad as well, other international groupings, even as we’ve attempted to stitch together some of the partnerships in which India has been a key player,” he said.