New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs on Monday welcomed the newly launched US National Security Strategy 2025 report, noting New Delhi’s strategic significance to Washington and figuring out India as a key companion in world safety and strategic initiatives.
During a weekly media briefing, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal acknowledged that the US report attaches India as a key companion within the bilateral complete world strategic partnership.
‘The report that you simply talked about displays and underscores the significance that the United States attaches to India as a key companion. We have a multifaceted relationship with the United States. Both international locations get pleasure from a complete world strategic partnership and proceed to work to additional strengthen these ties,’ Jaiswal mentioned.
Last week, the White House launched the US National Security Strategy 2025, which positioned India as a crucial companion, signalling Washington’s intent to deepen cooperation with New Delhi throughout financial, technological and defence sectors.
The technique doc explicitly requires improved industrial relations with India and encourages New Delhi to ‘contribute to Indo-Pacific safety’ by means of continued cooperation within the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) alongside Australia, Japan and the United States.
‘We should proceed to enhance industrial (and different) relations with India,’ the doc states, marking a big diplomatic emphasis on the bilateral relationship.
The technique identifies the Indo-Pacific as ‘already the supply of virtually half the world’s GDP’ and frames the area as amongst ‘the subsequent century’s key financial and geopolitical battlegrounds.’
US officers have made clear their intention to work with treaty allies and companions – whose mixed economies complete USD 65 trillion – to counteract what the doc describes as ‘predatory financial practices’ within the area.
India, with its rising financial system and strategic place, options prominently on this calculus. The administration has additionally emphasised expertise cooperation, notably in synthetic intelligence, quantum computing, and defence applied sciences, as areas for enhanced partnership, and reaffirms the US dedication to quadrilateral cooperation by means of the Quad, which has emerged as a key diplomatic and safety framework within the Indo-Pacific.
Meanwhile, on the bilateral counter-terrorism cooperation, Jaiswal additionally at present highlighted the just lately concluded twenty first assembly of the India-US Joint Working Group (JWG) on Counter Terrorism (CT), noting it as a crucial aspect of the India-US complete world strategic partnership.
The MEA Spokesperson additionally acknowledged that throughout the assembly, which was held on December 3, each side strongly condemned the April 22 terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam in addition to the current terror incident close to the enduring Red Fort in Delhi on November 10.
Both sides additionally renewed their dedication to multilateral cooperation towards terrorism on the UN, throughout the Quad framework, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and different boards.
‘We had the twenty first assembly of the India-US counter-terrorism working group assembly. This was held on the third of December. We’ve additionally given a complete readout of all that was mentioned as a part of this CT dialogue, which is essential. And it has been occurring for a number of years now. Both sides connect excessive significance to counter-terrorism cooperation. It is a vital aspect of our complete world strategic partnership that we share with the United States,’ Jaiswal.
‘The two sides strongly condemned the terrorist assault in Pahalgam, in addition to the current terror assault that occurred in Delhi. The two sides renewed their dedication to strengthening multilateral cooperation within the fields of terrorism, together with on the UN, throughout the format of the Quad, in addition to within the format of the Financial Action Task Force and a number of other different multilateral boards the place we talk about and proceed to debate these features,’ he added.
Earlier, the MEA in a press release on Saturday acknowledged that duirng the JWG, India and the US unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its types and manifestations, together with cross-border terrorism and renewed their dedication to strengthening multilateral cooperation within the area of countering terrorism, together with within the UN, Quad and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
The two sides additionally known as for added designations of ISIS and al-Qa’ida associates, and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and their proxy teams, supporters, sponsors, financiers and backers, underneath the UN 1267 sanctions regime, guaranteeing their members face a world asset freeze, journey ban, and arms embargo.
‘Both sides emphasised that confronting terrorism requires concerted motion in a sustained and complete method. Against this backdrop, the 2 sides renewed their dedication to strengthening multilateral cooperation within the area of countering terrorism, together with within the UN, Quad and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The two sides known as for added designations of ISIS and al-Qa’ida associates, and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and their proxy teams, supporters, sponsors, financiers and backers, underneath the UN 1267 sanctions regime, guaranteeing their members face a world asset freeze, journey ban, and arms embargo. Underscoring the rising convergence between India and the United States on counterterrorism, the Indian facet thanked the U.S. Department of State for designating The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of LeT, as each a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT),’ the assertion learn. (ANI)