Foreign Minister Jaishankar Says: Indo-US Bonds Impacts The World

Bilateral conversations framed the larger global challenges...

Ahead of a press conference, External Affairs Minister Jaishankar said that the relationship between India and US today impacts the rest of the world as there are a lot of countries which look to the association individually and bilaterally and hope for solutions which the world is searching for in many aspects.

While briefing the conference, the foreign minister said, "I think our relationship today impacts the rest of the world. There are a lot of countries which look to us individually and bilaterally for some part of the betterment which they hope for solutions which the world is searching for in many respects."

In a reference to the bilateral consultations between the two countries as solid, positive and productive, Mr. Jaishankar highlighted that the visit was very comfortable and he had some very good conversations with the Ministers in the US.

Moreover, Mr. Jaishankar said that the bilateral conversations were framed under the pretext of larger global challenges and there was a very high degree of convergence as the priorities of India and the US, at times, have been different.

"That's the sort of broad sense that I want to give you of a very solid, positive, productive bilateral conversation but framed in the context of larger global challenges where there was a very high degree of convergence on how we look at those challenges, we may articulate it a bit differently as we are oppositions and our priorities at some times will be different," he said.

While describing the Washington visit as a comfortable one, the External Affairs Minister underscored that both the nations understand how to make space for each other and work despite not entirely agreeing on every aspect of every issue.

"The good part of the relationship is today that we understand that we have to make space for each other and that we can work with each other even if we do not entirely agree on every aspect of every issue," said Mr. Jaishankar.