NEW DELHI: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday met with the Ambassador of the United States to India Eric Garcetti, along with Graham Mayer and Lisa Brown in New Delhi.
The Congress president said in a post on X that both India and US enjoy a global strategic partnership in almost all areas of human endeavours, and both the countries share the same democratic values.
“India and the United States enjoy a comprehensive global strategic partnership covering almost all areas of human endeavour, driven by shared democratic values.” said the Congress leader said in the post.
The Congress President also said that along with meeting Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India, he also met with Graham Mayer, the Minister-Counselor of Political Affairs and Lisa Brown, the Chief of Staff.
“Delighted to meet Ambassador of the US to India, HE Eric Garcetti, Minister-Counselor of Political Affairs, Graham Mayer and Chief of Staff, Lisa Brown and discussed deepening of ties between the two countries.” the post by the Congress leader added.
Earlier on August 28, the US Ambassador said at the Annual IC3 conference and Expo 2024 in Delhi that Americans and Indians feel similarly as people of both countries are aligned as they look at the world.
“What are the things we are trying to accomplish in the US-India relationship. We know that Americans and Indians feel similarly, I think our hearts are very aligned…Our heads are aligned as we look at the world, understanding that an open and free Indo-Pacific is better than something that doesn’t have freedom, doesn’t have democracy, doesn’t celebrate people’s rights” said the ambassador.
He also elaborated that the power of US-India collaboration is unprecedented. “I recently visited a company here in India that took a breakthrough of American scientists in dengue fever to have a vaccine that was effective in all 4 strains, never yet invented in human history, and gave that breakthrough to a number of Indian companies,” the ambassador said at the Expo.
“One of whom is now in the third round of clinical trials so maybe in a year or two, India and the world for the first time because of the US and India working together, to have a dengue fever vaccine that will save countless lives…So, the power of this collaboration that we have together, I think, is unprecedented,” he added. (ANI)