India-US fully committed to further strengthening ties: India s envoy
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Last Updated: Feb 04, 2021, 03:01 PM IST
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The India-US partnership has been on a steady upward trajectory in recent years, India s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu told PTI in an exclusive interview.
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One of the most experienced Indian diplomats on the US affairs, Sandhu is a 1988-batch Indian Foreign Service officer. In the last one year, he has had interactions with over 100 congressmen and senators across the political aisle.
India and the US both are fully committed to further strengthening their strategic bilateral ties to the next level and the recent conversations between the top officials of the two countries have been very warm and forward looking, India s top diplomat here has said.
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The regime
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