WASHINGTON: India and the US sail on tough seas with both the countries facing disagreement on several mutual issues. However, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Washington later this month for the Nuclear Security Summit. He will, however, also look forward to enhance bilateral ties in other areas. A read-out on Modi's visit spoke of both the sides agreeing to work for achieving concrete results in key areas of bilateral cooperation, including defence and trade & investment.
“Of course, we discuss differences. This is robust relationship which can endure differences,” said Indian foreign secretary S Jaishankar who was in America recently. A statement said both the sides discussed “US-India collaboration against Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammed, and other terrorist threats.” US national security council spokesman Ned Price said, “Building on their leaders' commitment to make the US-India partnership a defining relationship for the 21st century, they agreed to deepen their already close collaboration on these issues.”
In the United States Congress, embassy officials said, the foreign secretary had meetings with chairman of senate foreign relations committee senator Bob Corker (who has opposed the F16 sale to Pakistan), chairman of senate armed services committee senator John McCain and chairman of senate intelligence committee senator Richard Burr to exchange views on bilateral, regional and international issues.
