US Defence Secy Austin prone to go to India later this month

Image Source : ANI US Defence Secy Austin prone to go to India later this month
United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin prone to go to India later this month, in keeping with sources. His go to can be the primary in-person go to by any member of President Joe Biden’s administration to go to India.

In January, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart Austin emphasised Washington’s dedication to the Major Defense Partnership with New Delhi. The two leaders additionally held talks over the 2 nations’ imaginative and prescient of an open and free Indo-Pacific area.

“Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Indian Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh and during the call, Austin emphasized the Department’s commitment to the US-India Major Defense Partnership, observing that it is built upon shared values and a common interest in ensuring the Indo-Pacific region remains free and open,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby stated.

The leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) nations — Japan, United States, Australia and India — plan to carry a teleconference as early as mid-March, Kyodo News reported citing sources as saying on Friday (native time).

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison are additionally anticipated to debate the truthful distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and efforts to sort out local weather change, the sources stated.

The US President had spoken to PM Narendra Modi in February wherein the White House stated the leaders would work in the direction of “a stronger regional architecture through the Quad.”

Last month, the overseas ministers of the 4 nations held a web based assembly, wherein they agreed to work in the direction of a “free and open Indo-Pacific” area whereas strongly opposing any makes an attempt by Beijing to change the established order within the East and South China seas by power.

China has criticised the framework as an Asian model of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization searching for to undermine its official rise.

(With ANI inputs)

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