New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday held talks with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, broadly reviewing the trajectory of India-US global strategic partnership in the last four years under the Biden administration.
Sullivan is on a visit to India two weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the US.
In a post on X, Jaishankar complimented Sullivan for his “personal contribution” to forging a “closer and stronger” India-US partnership.
“Continued our ongoing discussions on deepening bilateral, regional and global cooperation. Valued the openness of our conversations in the last four years,” Jaishankar said in a post on X after meeting Sullivan.
Jaishankar also appreciated Sullivan’s “personal contribution to forging a closer and stronger India-US partnership”.
Over the past two years, Doval and Sullivan have led the iCET, which has seen the two sides collaborating closely on sensitive and critical technologies, including semiconductors and military hardware.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby last week said that Sullivan would travel to New Delhi for a “capstone meeting” with Doval that would “span a range of issues across the breadth of our partnership with India, from space, defence, strategic technology cooperation, all the way also to shared security priorities in the Indo-Pacific and beyond”.
Sullivan will also meet other Indian leaders and visit the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi on Monday to deliver a speech outlining the significant steps that the US and India have taken to strengthen their innovation alliance under the iCET.
Jaishankar had met Sullivan and Mike Waltz, who has been nominated by Trump for the post of NSA, during a recent visit to the US. Sullivan’s visit is also expected to be the last high-level engagement between the Indian side and the outgoing Joe Biden administration.
