'US will support India's growth as great power'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s State visit will show that India and the US are “partners of first resort” and will put the relationship on to an “inexorable” upward trajectory, John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the US National Security Council (NSC) has said

- Prashant Jha

WASHINGTON: Kirby also said that visit will stress that there is no partner “more consequential” than India in addressing global challenges, and the US will support India’s emergence as a “great power”.

Briefing reporters in Washington just as Modi was about to land in New York, Kirby said that President Joe Biden will raise human rights issues with PM Modi, just as he consistently did with other global leaders, as human rights constituted a foundational pillar of US foreign policy. He, however, emphasised the wide-ranging nature of America’s relationship with India, and spoke about deliverables in the domains of defence, space, health, technology, cyber, people-to-people links and more.