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NEW DELHI: With the new government on a foreign policy overdrive, senior officials from India, Japan and US will hold a trilateral meeting on June 23-24 in New Delhi to work on common approaches to Asian issues.
Meanwhile, US assistant secretary of state, Nisha Desai Biswal, leading the first official US outreach to the Modi government, will be meeting her counterparts in the MEA on Monday. On their agenda will be preparations for the first visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US. The Indian side has proposed September 26 as the main event with Barack Obama.
READ ALSO: Narendra Modi, Barack Obama will meet in Washington in September
The two sides are looking at achievements in defence and investment as sectors where they can show progress at this first summit. India's ambassador to the US S Jaishankar will join the talks on Monday.
The trilateral meeting is likely to focus on issues like cross-border connectivity and humanitarian and disaster response.
India and US are also working on two other important meetings — a possible visit by US secretary of state John Kerry and the India-US strategic dialogue. The latter was initially scheduled to be held in June, but has now been moved to September.
An early communication between the Modi government and the US happened before Modi's swearing-in, when US intelligence communicated to India their conclusions that LeT was responsible for the attack on the Indian consulate in Herat. While Karzai said in Delhi that he had been tipped off by a "key western" intelligence agency, sources said a similar communication was given to India by the US.
With the Modi government in place, US and India are looking to go beyond several issues that have slowed down relations in the past. Modi has shown that he is willing to put the visa ban behind him. The US will be looking to see what economic reforms are rolled out by the Indian government, including in contentious areas like tax reform, IPR issues etc.
OPINION: Modi-Obama bilateral meet can ease the chill and reset India-US relations
India, while working through obstacles in the past couple of years, will have its own list of demands in mind — on the immigration legislation which targets Indian IT companies, on Af-Pak and even on the "pivot" to Asia. The Indian government is particularly concerned about any fallout from the Nato withdrawal in Afghanistan.
India-US-Japan trilateral meet this month - The Times of India
Meanwhile, US assistant secretary of state, Nisha Desai Biswal, leading the first official US outreach to the Modi government, will be meeting her counterparts in the MEA on Monday. On their agenda will be preparations for the first visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US. The Indian side has proposed September 26 as the main event with Barack Obama.
READ ALSO: Narendra Modi, Barack Obama will meet in Washington in September
The two sides are looking at achievements in defence and investment as sectors where they can show progress at this first summit. India's ambassador to the US S Jaishankar will join the talks on Monday.
The trilateral meeting is likely to focus on issues like cross-border connectivity and humanitarian and disaster response.
India and US are also working on two other important meetings — a possible visit by US secretary of state John Kerry and the India-US strategic dialogue. The latter was initially scheduled to be held in June, but has now been moved to September.
An early communication between the Modi government and the US happened before Modi's swearing-in, when US intelligence communicated to India their conclusions that LeT was responsible for the attack on the Indian consulate in Herat. While Karzai said in Delhi that he had been tipped off by a "key western" intelligence agency, sources said a similar communication was given to India by the US.
With the Modi government in place, US and India are looking to go beyond several issues that have slowed down relations in the past. Modi has shown that he is willing to put the visa ban behind him. The US will be looking to see what economic reforms are rolled out by the Indian government, including in contentious areas like tax reform, IPR issues etc.
OPINION: Modi-Obama bilateral meet can ease the chill and reset India-US relations
India, while working through obstacles in the past couple of years, will have its own list of demands in mind — on the immigration legislation which targets Indian IT companies, on Af-Pak and even on the "pivot" to Asia. The Indian government is particularly concerned about any fallout from the Nato withdrawal in Afghanistan.
India-US-Japan trilateral meet this month - The Times of India
