US principal Deputy NSA meets Jaishankar, Doval

This is a follow up to the visit of US NSA Jake Sullivan to India in June 2023 and the visit of NSA Ajit Doval to US in January 2023, it said.

Written by Shubhajit Roy

New Delhi | Updated: December 5, 2023 07:55 AM IST

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US principal Deputy NSA meets Jaishankar, Doval

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with Principal Deputy NSA of the US Jonathan Finer in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI)

Jonathan Finer, the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor of the US, met with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and External Affairs minister S Jaishankar, in what is the first meeting between Indian and US officials after US federal prosecutors accused an Indian official of a plot to kill a Khalistan separatist in the US.

While the visiting US official is in New Delhi to hold consultations with Deputy National Security Adviser (Strategic Affairs) Vikram Misri, as a follow-up visit to NSAs’ meetings in June and January this year, the two Deputy NSAs “reviewed key bilateral issues and exchanged views on regional and global developments,” a statement by the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday.

“The two Deputy NSAs undertook the first comprehensive mid-term review of the India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) after the first meeting led by the respective NSAs in January 2023 in Washington D.C. In May 2022, Prime Minister Modi and President Biden launched iCET to facilitate outcome-oriented cooperation in new and emerging technologies. iCET is co-led by the NSCS in India and the US National Security Council (NSC),” the statement said.

This is a follow up to the visit of US NSA Jake Sullivan to India in June 2023 and the visit of NSA Ajit Doval to US in January 2023, it said.

It also said that they took stock of progress made in building technology value chains under the framework of iCET.

“They expressed satisfaction with ongoing collaborations in diverse domains including semiconductors, quantum, Artificial Intelligence (Al) and High-Performance Computing (HPC), defence innovation, space, and advanced telecommunications through interactions between the respective governments, industry, academia and other stakeholders,” it said.

It said the two Deputy NSAs also reiterated their commitment to fulfilling the vision of PM Modi and President Biden for elevating the bilateral strategic partnership and agreed to broaden the scope of iCET to biotechnology, critical minerals and rare earths processing technologies, digital connectivity and digital public infrastructure, and advanced materials. “They also affirmed the importance of easing regulations to facilitate high-tech collaborations, and transfer of technology,” it said.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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