US Secretary of Defense pushes to finalise defence deals with India after meeting EAM Jaishankar

Jul 02, 2025

Washington DC (US), July 2, 2025 (ANI): In his meeting with EAM Dr S Jaishankar, US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth said, "...The US is very pleased for the successful integration of many US defence items...building on this progress, we hope we can complete several major pending US defence sales to India, expand our shared defence industrial cooperation and co-production networks, strengthen interoperability...and formally sign a new framework of US-India major defence partnership...We are eager to work alongside you to realise our shared goals. They are deep and ongoing. The visit today marks an important milestone in the ongoing series of high-level engagements between our two great countries..."