"I'm Very Bullish About That Relationship": S Jaishankar On India-US Ties
NDTV
S Jaishankar said that a large part of his deliberations with Antony Blinken were devoted to the strengthening of their bilateral relationship.
Having played a key role in shaping the India-US ties over the past few decades, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said he is very bullish about this bilateral relationship.
"So very frankly, that's a long way of saying that I'm very bullish about that relationship," Mr Jaishankar told reporters at a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he responded to a question on his overall sense of the trajectory of the relationship.
"The big change that I have seen in my four decades as a diplomat was actually in the transformation of India-US relations," he said.
"And your question – how do I see the trajectory – quite honestly, I see today a United States very international, very much more to engaging – very much more open to engaging a country like India, which is actually thinking beyond traditional alliances, which has been very effective at finding common ground with potential or actual partners," Mr Jaishankar said.
