S Jaishankar To Visit US For Talks On Bilateral, Regional, & Global Issues

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be visiting the United States from 24 to 29 December to engage in discussions on key bilateral, regional, and global issues. He will also chair a conference of India’s Consul Generals in the US during the trip.

According to a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), “He will be meeting counterparts to discuss key bilateral, regional and global issues. During the visit, EAM will also chair a conference of the Consul Generals of India in the USA.”

In anticipation of Jaishankar’s visit, US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, underscored the importance of enhancing the US-India partnership.

Speaking at a US-India Business Council (USIBC) event on 19 December, Garcetti stated, “We need, together, to lower tariffs, not to see them go up. We need, together, to increase trade and to make it more fair and equal. We need to, together, make sure that there’s training and talent that meets the needs of companies on both sides of the Indo-Pacific.”

He further added, “We have to protect our trademarks and our intellectual property, and we have to make sure that transportation and infrastructure exists, for India to reach its goals more quickly, that is in the American interest, and vice versa, in the Indian interest as well. So let us renew our commitment to being more ambitious, to not settling for what is, and what is good, but reaching for what can be and what will be great.”

Garcetti Hails India’s Workforce As Humanity’s Extraordinary Resource

The US Ambassador also praised India’s workforce, describing it as ‘the most extraordinary resource that humanity has on its planet’.

Garcetti noted, “And to realise these ambitions, we must recommit ourselves to a mutual path of trust and transparency so that people know what to expect. India’s workforce, which numbers more than a billion people, is one of the most extraordinary resources that humanity has on its planet. They are builders, thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs. The Indian dream is the flip side of what we used to call the American truth. In some ways, you see it even more optimistically sometimes than our own country. And we can leave inspired when we work together about what’s possible.”

Garcetti also advocated for combining ‘America’s scientific and financial expertise’ with ‘India’s grassroots innovation’.

“The US and India can create ecosystems that tap into this human capital to merge American scientific strengths in research, our financial acumen and business strategy with Indians’ jugaad finding a solution to everything, your deep talent pools, your grassroots ingenuity and your readiness to scale solutions on a massive level,” he added.

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