Joint Work In APAC, Defining Dimension Of Indo-U.S. Partnership

WASHINGTON: Joint efforts to promote regional security and political and economic openness in the Asia- Pacific are gradually becoming a "defining dimension" of the Indo-US partnership, a top U.S. diplomat has said.

"I remain convinced that as we look at the next two decades and beyond, our strategic interests will remain far more aligned than not," Deputy Secretary of State, William Burns, said in his keynote address at the launch of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York.

"This is especially true in the Asia-Pacific, where our joint-efforts to promote regional security and political and economic openness are gradually becoming a defining dimension of our partnership," Burns said.

In his key note address Burns said, no partnership has undergone a greater transformation over the past couple of decades than the relationship with India.

"In addition to our annual Strategic Dialogue, we've also embarked on a series of efforts to identify practical areas of cooperation across East Asia, including through our trilateral with Japan and our East Asia consultations, the latest round of which concluded at the end of March in Washington," he said.
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