America
India, US discuss cooperation on trade to terrorism
By
Arun Kumar
Washington, June 30
Indian Foreign Secretary
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar had a series of interactions with interlocutors
in the US government on issues ranging from ease of doing business to
cooperation on terrorism and climate change.
On a short visit to
Washington, Jaishankar met, among others, US National Security Advisor
Susan E. Rice, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Trade
Representative (USTR) Michael Froman Monday.
At his meeting with
Rice in the White House, they reviewed the implementation of initiatives
taken during the two summits between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
President Barack Obama in the past one year, the Indian Embassy said.
They
also discussed India's role in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region,
including for promotion of connectivity and economic integration and
relief and reconstruction in Nepal after the earthquake of April 2015.
Blinken,
who hosted a luncheon in honour of the foreign secretary, discussed
with him a range of bilateral, regional and global issues of topical
relevance.
They also explored deeper collaboration and engagement
to address emerging global challenges like terrorism, climate change
and cyber issues and policy coordination on internet governance and
other matters.
Jaishankar's meeting with Froman covered the ground of India-US economic and commercial engagement.
They
agreed to work together to promote and reinvigorate economic
partnership, and to create infrastructure and policy framework to make
it attractive for businesses of the two sides to engage with each other,
the embassy said.
Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium
Challenge Corporation (MCC), Dana J. Hyde, also called on Jaishankar and
briefed him on the MCC's planned engagement with India.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at [email protected])