EAM Jaishankar Meets Trump's NSA pick Waltz, Discusses Bilateral Ties, Global Issues

<p>San Francisco, Dec 28 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has met Congressman Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for National Security Advisor, during which they had a wide-ranging conversation on the bilateral partnership between India and the US as well as current global issues.</p> <p>Jaishankar is currently on an official visit to the US from Dec 24-29. This was the first highest-level in-person meeting between the Indian government and the incoming Trump administration.</p> <p>&ldquo;Delighted to meet&rdquo; Waltz &ldquo;this evening&rdquo;, Jaishankar posted on X on Friday.</p> <p>&ldquo;Enjoyed a wide-ranging conversation on our bilateral partnership as well as current global issues. Look forward to working with him,&rdquo; he said.</p> <p>Waltz, 50, would replace Jake Sullivan as the National Security Advisor on January 20, when Trump would be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.</p> <p>Waltz is no stranger to India-US relationship. A three-term Congressman from the sixth Congressional District of Florida, Waltz is Republican Co-Chair of Congressional India Caucus, which is the largest country-specific Caucus in the US House of Representatives.</p> <p>Waltz also co-led a Congressional delegation to India in August last year and attended the Independence Day celebrations at Red Fort. He has been the sponsor of several India-friendly legislations in the House of Representatives. On November 12, Trump announced that Waltz would be his National Security Advisor.</p> <p>Earlier in the day, Jaishankar said he "concluded a very useful two-day conference of team @IndianEmbassyUS and our Consuls General in Washington DC".</p> <p>"Confident from the deliberations that the continuous growth of the India-US partnership will be accelerated," he posted on X.</p> <p><em><strong>(This report has been published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. Apart from the headline, no editing has been done in the copy by ABP Live.)</strong></em></p>

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