Ahead of India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue, NSA Ajit Doval meets Mike Pompeo, Defence Secretary Mark Esper
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Ahead of India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue, NSA Ajit Doval meets Mike Pompeo, Defence Secretary Mark Esper

New Delhi: Ahead of the India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, at South Block, stated sources.

“They discussed a number of issues and challenges of strategic importance. Both sides highlighted the need to take forward shared objectives and build capabilities across all domains so as to ensure a safe, stable and rule-based regional and global security environment,” in line with sources.

Earlier on Tuesday, each the highest US administration officers visited the National War Memorial and paid tributes to India’s fallen heroes. 

 

 

At current, the two+2 ministerial dialogue is ongoing, which is attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Pompeo and Esper. Later the 2 visiting Secretaries will name on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence. 

The US officers then will go away for Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.

Pompeo and Esper arrived in New Delhi on Monday for the two+2 inter-ministerial talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. The go to additionally comes at a time when India and China are locked in a severe army stand-off alongside the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh.

Singh and Esper held talks yesterday, throughout which the defence ministers of the 2 nations reviewed bilateral defence cooperation spanning “military-to-military cooperation, secure communication systems and information sharing, defence trade and industrial issues” and in addition mentioned methods to take bilateral cooperation ahead.

The Indian Defence Ministry introduced following the assembly between Esper and Singh that “the 2 Ministers expressed satisfaction that settlement of BECA (Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement) will likely be signed in the course of the go to.

“External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, also had a meeting on Monday wherein they agreed that US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership is “vital to the safety and prosperity” of each the nations, the Indo-Pacific area and the world. 

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