India will be critical strategic partner for US in coming decades, said White House

Washington: The White House said India will be a critical strategic partner for the US in the coming decades. US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications (NSCCSC) John Kirby said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's State Visit to the country will affirm the deep and close partnership between the two nations.

Mr Kirby said, India's growing commitment to playing a more engaged international role, including in the Indo-Pacific Quad, demonstrates a new and growing willingness to join the United States to protect and advance a shared vision of a free, open, and rules-based global order.

He said that building



resilient supply chains for clean energy technologies, semiconductors, and other critical and emerging technology, countering climate change and  food security, there is no partner more consequential than India.

The Official State Visit of the prime minister will affirm the deep and close partnership between the US and India, and the warm bonds of family and friendship that link Americans and Indians together, he told reporters at the Foreign Press Center. The NSCCSC said after years of strengthening ties, the US-India partnership is deeper and more expansive than it has ever been in the past.