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"President Obama will be visiting India late autumn
and we are looking forward to his visit," Sharma said.
Meanwhile, State Department spokesman P J Crowley told
reporters at his daily news briefing that Obama's visit to
India later this year is a very important trip.
"We are mindful of the fact that obviously we'll have
an important trip by the President to the region later this
year. So there's a lot of work to do, and the meetings that
we have are a reflection of that," he said.
"I think what we've been doing this week is a logical
extension of the recent strategic dialogue that we have with
India. You can see that in other contexts, once you establish
that dialogue and the structure that goes along with it, there
are important follow-on meetings as we've just indicated
that's happening in the dialogue with Pakistan," Crowley said.
"So it does reinforce the breath of our common
interest, but forming a strategic dialogue is not just about
some fancy title; it really involves very specific issues and
it has a formal structure that allows us to work through those
issues and follow up on the recent high-level meeting between
the Secretary and Foreign Minister Krishna," he said in
response to a question. PTI