Dramatic change in ties with US, India’s External Affairs Minister Jaishankar says
Says two countries will find way to ‘fix’ trade disputes
Washington: India and the United States have experienced dramatic changes in their relationship in the last two decades, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said her at an event on Tuesday, exuding confidence that the two countries will find a way to “fix” their bilateral trade disputes.
Jaishankar said the world was increasingly becoming multipolar and predicted that a strategic appreciation of the emerging global landscape would bring India and the United States closer.
“I can’t believe that people today are less ingenious than we were in our time. So I’m reasonably confident that we will find a fix,” said the top Indian diplomat who is currently on a three-day official trip to Washington DC.
He hoped that Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s talks with his US counterpart would produce some positive outcome.
Jaishankar said there were multiple rounds of positive conversations on the trade issue ahead of the New York meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump.
“I think they needed more time. Many of their issues were more complex,” he said. “It isn’t simple arithmetic. A lot of variables are out there. So we will have to work our way through that,” he said.