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Jaishankar holds talks with American counterparts focusing on boosting ties in critical sectors
Jul-03-2025

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his American counterpart Marco Rubio have hold talks focused on ways to deepen the India-US collaboration in key sectors such as trade, defence, energy, mobility and critical technologies. It was the first in-person meeting between Jaishankar and Rubio after the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan in May. The two sides also took stock of the ongoing negotiations for a trade deal between India and the US.

New Delhi and Washington are holding negotiations to seal a bilateral trade agreement (BTA) as agreed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's talks with US President Donald Trump in Washington DC in February. The US State Department said the implementation of US-India COMPACT (Catalysing Opportunities for Military Partnership, Accelerated Commerce and Technology) figured in the Rubio-Jaishankar talks. The COMPACT initiative, aimed at driving transformative change across key pillars of cooperation, was launched following talks between Modi and Trump in February.

He held separate bilateral talks with US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. He noted that they had a productive conversation on advancing the India-US defence partnership, building on growing convergences of interests, capabilities and responsibilities. He also met US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and discussed opportunities for a deeper bilateral energy partnership. He said they spoke about the energy transformation underway in India. And also discussed opportunities for deeper India-US energy partnership.

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