India, US firm up agenda for next month's Strategic Dialogue

New Delhi, May 24 (PTI) India and the US on Monday firmed
up the substantive agenda, including bilateral and regional
issues, for the first Strategic Dialogue to be held in
Washington on June 3.
The agenda was finetuned at a meeting between Foreign
Secretary Nirupama Rao and US Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs William Burns here.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton will hold the Strategic Dialogue,
marking a new chapter in the rapidly expanding and deepening
ties.
Rao and Burns reviewed the bilateral agenda and,
specifically, the progress made in the India-US Strategic
Dialogue announced on July 20, last year during Clinton’s
visit here, External Affairs Ministry said in a statement on
Monday night.
"The substantive issues relating to the forthcoming
visit of External Affairs Minister to USA from June 2-3, 2010
for the inaugural meeting of the India-US Strategic Dialogue
in Washington were at the core of their discussions," it said.
"Intensified India-US co-operation in the five focus
areas of strategic cooperation, energy and climate change,
education and development, economic trade and agriculture
constituted their main agenda," the statement said.
It added that Rao and Burns also exchanged views on
regional and global issues of shared interest and common
concern.
Burns also called on Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, MoS in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan and
National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon. PTI PYK
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