Very bullish about ties between India and US, says External Affairs Minister Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said he is very "bullish" about the relationship between India and the US.

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," 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,” Jaishankar said.

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And a very good example of all this is actually in the Quad the informal grouping of Australia, Japan, India and the United States.

“I mean, the fact was a Quad was something we tried about two decades 15 years ago. It didn’t work, and it is working very well today and it’s grown remarkably in the course of the last two years,” he noted.