Washington: India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, who is on a visit to the US, held talks with the US Secretary of State. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the issue of strategic partnership between the two countries is at the forefront of this discussion. White House Media Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said that the American President believes that the cooperation between the democratic countries of India and the United States on the front of advanced technology will be the most important thing in the future. At the same time, it is said that the US NSA Jake Sullivan and Indian NSA Ajit Doval discussed the transaction of the stalled MQ-9B Predator Drone between both countries.
For the last five years, there has been a discussion between India and the US about the ‘MQ-9B’ Predator drone. But this agreement between the two countries did not go through. The US was going to provide India with 30 Predator drones, i.e. surveillance and precision attack drones, for about three billion dollars. India is preparing to buy ten drones each for its three defence forces. But this transaction stalled for more than five years. But the obstacles in this transaction have been removed and India has to decide in this regard, the officials related to the discussion have claimed. However, the officials refused to disclose the reasons and details of the delay.
Meanwhile, a conference on ‘ICET-Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology’ was held in both countries in the presence of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and US Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. ‘ICET’ was established in 2022 after the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden in Tokyo, Japan. According to this, both countries had decided to cooperate on future technology. In the future, both leaders agreed on joint research and production of this technology. Against that backdrop, the US White House has reacted to the talks between Doval and Sullivan.
Cooperation on the ICECT front is one of the biggest issues in the future between India and the United States. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the US president believes this technological cooperation will be very important in democratic countries. At the same time, although US cooperation with India has strategic importance, this cooperation is not against China or any other country, Karine Jean-Pierre has claimed.
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