US Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth on Wednesday thanked EAM S Jaishankar for a productive assembly on advancing the India-US defence partnership, constructing on rising convergences of pursuits, capabilities and obligations. The 2 met on Tuesday on the sidelines of QUAD.
Hegseth posted on X, “Nice assembly yesterday with Indian Minister of Exterior Affairs S Jaishankar”
“Thanks, Mr. Minister, for all you do to strengthen U.S.-India relations, particularly our protection partnership. I salute our two nice democracies’ cooperation in securing a free and open Asia-Pacific,” he goes on so as to add.
On Wednesday, the US has expressed hope that it could actually full a number of main pending American defence gross sales to India, because it careworn that Washington and Delhi are “mutually conscious” of the safety issues within the Indo-Pacific area.
In line with the Division of Defence (DoD) information article, Hegseth mentioned the US and India are “mutually conscious of the safety issues within the area, and each nations have the flexibility to counter that risk collectively.”
Hegseth additionally touched on US efforts to offer India with the instruments wanted to counter threats within the Indo-Pacific area, the DoD information mentioned.
“America may be very happy with the profitable integration of many US defence gadgets into India’s stock,” Hegseth mentioned, in line with the DoD information article.
“And constructing on this progress, we hope we are able to full a number of main pending US defence gross sales to India, develop our shared defence industrial cooperation and coproduction efforts, strengthen interoperability … between our forces, after which formally signal a brand new 10-year Framework for the US-India Main Defence Partnership … which we hope to do very quickly.”
Jaishankar, in his opening remarks, mentioned, “We consider that our defence partnership is, as we speak, really some of the consequential pillars of the connection.
“It isn’t constructed merely on shared curiosity, however we consider actually deepening convergence and of capabilities, of obligations and what we do within the Indo-Pacific, we consider, is completely essential to its strategic stability,” he mentioned.
(With inputs from companies)
