U.S.-India Ties To Keep Growing Despite Elections
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 23:40 IST
On Pakistan, the U.S. as always encouraged India to settle its differences with its neighbour.
Singh in turn is understood to have told her interlocutors that India would be happy to do so provided peace was maintained on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir and there was progress in the trial of the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
At the State Department, asked about Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's proposal for NSA-level talks between India and Pakistan, Psaki said the US supported a "dialogue as a means for working through differences."
But, she said, it was for India and Pakistan to decide "the purpose of their talks and whether they would support them".
During talks with Singh, the U.S. and India had also agreed to joint principles to strengthen India-U.S. cooperation on training UN peacekeepers, developed with support from the Department's Global Peace Operations Initiative, Psaki said.
The U.S. also accepted India's invitation to serve as a partner country for India's technology summit and expo in New Delhi in the fall of 2014, "further intensifying our broad scientific cooperation", she said.
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Singh in turn is understood to have told her interlocutors that India would be happy to do so provided peace was maintained on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir and there was progress in the trial of the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
At the State Department, asked about Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's proposal for NSA-level talks between India and Pakistan, Psaki said the US supported a "dialogue as a means for working through differences."
But, she said, it was for India and Pakistan to decide "the purpose of their talks and whether they would support them".
During talks with Singh, the U.S. and India had also agreed to joint principles to strengthen India-U.S. cooperation on training UN peacekeepers, developed with support from the Department's Global Peace Operations Initiative, Psaki said.
The U.S. also accepted India's invitation to serve as a partner country for India's technology summit and expo in New Delhi in the fall of 2014, "further intensifying our broad scientific cooperation", she said.
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Source: IANS