Despite many differences in their relationship, India and the U.S. have been able to surmount all challenges, said the two sides after a visit to New Delhi by U.S. Principal Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer, the first high-level meetings since the U.S. indictment linked an Indian government official to an assassination plot last week.
Significantly, Mr. Finer, who led a delegation for talks with the National Security Council (NSCS) on technology and met with his counterpart, Deputy National Security Adviser Vikram Misri, received meetings with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, NSA Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra, indicating how much importance New Delhi gave the visit in the current situation after the publication of the Department of Justice indictment.
“There are many difficult issues that remain in [the India-U.S.] relationship, right up to the present day,” said Mr. Finer, speaking at the Global Technology Summit in Delhi, organised by the External Affairs Ministry and Carnegie India, a think tank, where he spoke of the “complicated history” of the relationship. “But what we have demonstrated, I think, throughout the course of not just this administration, [but previous administrations in India and U.S.] to bring us to the point where not only can we seize some of the important opportunities that the world presents for us, geopolitically and economically, but we can work through our differences in a constructive way without derailing that broader cooperative agenda,” he added.
