2024 a big year for India-US relationship, says Official

US President Joe Biden is looking forward to travelling to India in September his administrations point person for South and Central Asia has said observing that 2024 is going to be a big year for the IndiaUS relationshipIndias leadership in the G20 further broadens its capacity to stand as a force for good in the world the official saidThis is gonna be a big year Of course India is hosting the G20 This year the United States is hosting APEC Japan is hosting the G7 We have lots of our QUAD members who are taking on leadership roles And it provides opportunities for all of us to bring our countries closer together Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu told PTI in an interview on ThursdayAlso Read Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Joe Biden exchange frosty words over legal overhaulI know our President is looking forward to travelling to India in September That will be his first trip to India as part of the G20 Leaders Summit Were really excited about whats to come in the next few months he saidWere only a little over three months into this new year And weve had a number of really exciting things that happened he saidThis includes the visit of Secretary of State Tony Blinken Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to India The IndiaUS Forum in Delhi was attended by several senior administration officialsIndia as the president of the G20 has been taking a lead in advancing a positive agenda for the G20In March Dr Jaishankar hosted his QUAD counterparts for a ministerial meeting and extraordinary public events at the Raisina Dialogue with all four foreign ministers together It was the first such public discussion with QUAD foreign ministers and really drove home how our four countries are coming together to support the people of the IndoPacific he saidAnd then lastly this month the arrival of our new Ambassador Eric Garcetti He has already received a really warm welcome from our Indian and American staff at the US Embassy Once he presents his credentials he is looking forward to meeting with the rest of India and I think India will find that he is young he is enthusiastic and hes eager to bring our relations to new heights Lu saidWe are really thankful for the tremendous work India has done by hosting the G20 Foreign Ministerial meeting last month and we look forward to actively participating in the many future G20 meetings coming up this year including the New Delhi Leaders Summit in September he saidAt the foreign ministers meeting India created an agenda that allowed them to discuss some of the worlds most pressing challenges and deliberate to find concrete solutionsWe have seen how the G20 brings together countries for collective action This meeting in March was no exception As India has already shown during the first few meetings of its presidency the G20 is a powerful forum where the worlds leading economies can come together to respond to global challenges food security health energy insecurity climate change and unsustainable debt he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever