New Delhi: United Stares’ secretary of State Antony Blinken met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today. He also met National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Antony Blinken’s meeting has also been scheduled with Prime Minister Narendra Modi later today.
Blinken and Jaishankar held extensive discussions on a host of regional and global issues, including the Afghanistan conflict, regional security, the Indo-Pacific and the Gulf.
At a joint presser held after the meeting, Blinken expressed the Biden administration’s intent to grow stronger bilateral ties with New Delhi and stressed on the importance of cooperation on various issues including COVID-19 and climate change.
Jaishankar, too on India’s behalf, highlighted the large scope of cooperation between the two nations and thanked the United States for help with supply of vaccine raw materials during the second wave of coronavirus.
Listing out the broad topics that Jaishankar mentioned in his opening remarks during the meeting with Blinken, the Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday stressed on how the India-US cooperation covers “virtually all domains of contemporary relevance”.