Ajit Doval to visit Washington DC: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval held key talks with top US leadership including his American counterpart Jake Sullivan as part of the first high-level meeting on the Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (ICET). will do. Officials, academicians and industry experts believe that after the Indo-US nuclear deal, the talks could prove to be the next major milestone in the relationship between the two countries.

Ajit Doval will reach Washington on Monday

NSA Ajit Doval will reach Washington on Monday for ICET. The officials of both the countries have kept silence regarding the agenda of the ambitious ICET meeting. Information about the decisions taken in this meeting 21 White on Jan. It is likely to be given after the conclusion of the meeting between the two sides in the House. India and the United States hope that this meeting will lay the foundation for the development of a trusted partner ecosystem between the corporate sectors of the two countries, so that the public-private partnerships that both countries thrive on the culture of startups will promote scientific research and technology. To successfully face the challenges arising due to dictatorial regimes in the region.

Doval will reach America with a large delegation

Issued after the bilateral meeting of US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Tokyo earlier in May, 4033 ICET was mentioned for the first time in a joint statement. Doval is arriving in the US with an unusually large delegation, including five secretary-level officials and the corporate leadership of Indian companies that are doing some cutting-edge research in India. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister Ajay Kumar Sood, Scientific Advisor to the Defense Minister G Satheesh Reddy, Secretary to the Department of Telecom K Rajaram and Defense Secretary are among the five secretary-level officers accompanying the NSA to the US. Sameer V Kamat, Director General, Research and Development Organization (DRDO).

6 areas identified for cooperation

Under ICET both the countries have identified 6 areas of cooperation. Cooperation between the two countries will be based on the principle of co-development and co-production, which will gradually be expanded to the Quad, then NATO, and then to Europe and the rest of the world. Its purpose is to provide such state-of-the-art technologies to the rest of the world, which are comparatively very cheap. The six areas that India and the US have identified for cooperation under ICET include scientific research and development, quantum artificial intelligence, defense innovation, space and advanced communication methods such as 6G and semiconductors.

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Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 8: 21 PM IST