2023 epochal year for India-US ties: USISPF chief Mukesh Aghi
defence synergy and trade links in 2024 and remain steadfast in securing a free and open Indo-Pacific region.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Mukesh Aghi, the President and CEO of the US-India Partnership Forum (USISPF) also said that as the world moves into 2024, now the fastest-growing major economy and the most populous nation in the world has a «bolder vision.
»As we bring down the curtains on 2023, December bodes for a time to reflect on the year gone by and the monumental success of US-India relations," Aghi said.
He said that 2023 was an "epochal year" when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington DC in June on a State Visit, marking only the third State Visit by an Indian leader to the US after President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1963 and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2009.
As the world moves into 2024, Aghi said India, now the fastest-growing major economy and the most populous nation in the world, has a «bolder vision».
«India and the United States will build on the deep defence synergy in new areas of critical and emerging technology» with initiatives launched in 2023 such as iCET, and INDUS-X," he said.
Together with their Quad Partners in Australia and Japan, both New Delhi and Washington will remain steadfast in securing a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Washington and New Delhi have also been successful in building new economic corridors of trust in the landmark India-Middle East-European (IMEEC).
