A White House official said India’s commitment to a more “engaged international role” is growing.
Washington:
India will be an important strategic partner for the US in the coming decades, the White House has said, asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the country will reaffirm the deep and close partnership between the two countries.
PM Modi is visiting the US from June 21-24 at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, who will host him for a state dinner on June 22. The visit also includes the Prime Minister’s address to the joint session. of the US Congress on 22 June.
In his departure statement, PM Modi had said that this “special invitation” for the state visit of President Biden and the First Lady is a reflection of the strength and vitality of the partnership between democracies.
“India will be an important strategic partner for the United States for decades to come,” John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications (NSCCSC), said at a press conference here on Tuesday. India’s growing commitment to playing a more “engaged international role”, including in the Indo-Pacific Quad; a new and growing willingness to join the United States to defend and advance a shared vision of a free, open, and rules-based global order displays the “, They said.
Kirby said that “as we think about the future of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and building resilient supply chains for clean energy technologies, semiconductors, and other critical and emerging technologies, combating climate change The future of our workforce and global health, energy, food security, there is no more important partner than India”.
He told reporters at the Foreign Press Center that the prime minister’s official state visit would reaffirm the deep and close partnership between the United States and India and the warm bonds of families and friendship that bind Americans and Indians together.
“The visit will reinforce our two countries’ shared commitment to a free, open, prosperous and secure Indo-Pacific and our shared resolve to enhance our strategic technology partnership, including in defence, clean energy and space,” he said.
Kirby said the leaders will discuss ways to advance educational exchanges and people-to-people ties, as well as work together to address common challenges ranging from climate change to workforce development and health security.
He said that as the world’s oldest and largest democracies and major net security providers in the Indo-Pacific, the US and India are increasingly partners of first resort as a joint force for global good.
“Now, we are hosting an official state visit to India to keep our cooperation on a firmer path as we support India’s emergence as a great power that will advance American interests in the decades to come,” he added. will be central to ensuring
The NSCCSC said that after years of strengthening ties, the US-India partnership is deeper and wider than ever. Kirby said, “We now instinctively look to each other and work closely with each other to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific, to drive innovation, to jointly combat COVID deal with global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Working together and with other like-minded partners, our countries will shape the future, working towards a world that is more open and more prosperous, more stable, more secure and more equitable,” he said. Be more flexible obviously.”
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