Jaishankar, Blinken talk on progress in India-US strategic ties

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday discussed key bilateral issues as well as the situation in West Asia, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific region with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said the “extraordinary partnership” between the two nations has grown “stronger and stronger” in recent years.

Jaishankar and Blinken met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, in its 60th edition, where both are to participate in a panel discussion on ‘Growing the Pie: Seizing Shared Opportunities,’ on Saturday.

The bilateral meeting took place weeks after the US agreed to supply 31 armed MQ-9B Predator drones to India and two months after the unease between the two sides over an alleged plot to kill Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on US soil. India has already constituted a high-level probe committee to investigate US allegations.

“Great to meet my friend US @SecBlinken this afternoon on #MSC2024 sidelines. Our talk centered on the situation in West Asia, Ukraine and Indo-Pacific. Reviewed the continuing progress in our bilateral ties,” Jaishankar said on X and posted a photo of the meeting.

“We have an extraordinary partnership between the US and India that has grown stronger in recent years, stronger than it’s ever been, and it is for us among the most consequential relationships of any in the world,” Blinken said after the meeting.

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