New Delhi, July 18 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive here today to attend the second round of the India-US strategic dialogue on Tuesday.
During the dialogue, a host of key bilateral, regional and international issues including the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and security cooperation in the backdrop of recent Mumbai blasts will be discussed.
Hillary, who will be in India on a two-day official trip, would be accompanied by a 25-member delegation drawn from various Departments of US Administration.
During her visit she will hold talks with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, apart from calling on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and meeting National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon.
She would also have meetings with the Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Clinton will be travelling to Chennai on Wednesday where she is likely to meet representatives of US companies.
"The strategic dialogue provides an opportunity to take stock of the progress in bilateral relationship, bilateral cooperation, as well as to consult on global and regional issues of interest, besides charting out a short to medium-term roadmap of cooperation in priority sectors for the two Governments," said External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash.
"The strategic dialogue mechanism has come to be regarded as one of the very effective mechanisms to maintain the momentum of our rapidly deepening and expanding global strategic partnership that was outlined by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President Obama during Prime Minister's state visit to Washington in November, 2009. It was reaffirmed during President Obama's reciprocal state visit to India in November last year," he added.
He further said it is no exaggeration to say that the relationship has got transformed in recent years with both sides taking and having taken a series of new initiatives to take the relationship to a qualitatively new level.
"India and USA are focusing on simultaneously further strengthening engagement in political, economic, strategic and security spheres, with greater priority to areas like economy, energy, environment, education and security," he added. (ANI)
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