External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday that there is structural soundness in the India-US relationship and it is certainly proofed against political check.
While US Principal Deputy NSA Jonathan Finer said the US and India have established a mature relationship that enables both sides to identify opportunities and work through differences.
Both Jaishjankar and Finer made the comments at a technology conference in Delhi.
Earlier in the day, Finer separately met Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval. In his address at the conclave, Finer said the US and India have a “complicated history” and they have not always been “wholly aligned”.
Finer said there are many “difficult issues” that remain in the relationship “right up to the present day”.
The senior White House official is on a visit to India that comes days after the US linked an Indian official to a man charged with conspiring to assassinate Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on US soil.
“I think the US and India have a complicated history. We have not always been wholly aligned. We have not always found it easy to work together as economic partners, we have not always found it easy to be on the same side on issues geopolitically,” he said.
“I think in some ways the most important step forward for the US and India is recognising on each side that there is much more that connects us than divides us,” Finer added.
