US working very closely with India on Sri Lanka: Boucher

Washington, May 14 (PTI) A top US official Thursday said
the Obama Administration has kept India fully informed and is
working very closely with New Delhi on the current Sri Lankan
crisis.

"We have been working very closely with India," the
Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Boucher, told a group of
South Asian journalists at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of
the State Department.

Boucher, who has been actively involved in the Sri Lankan
crisis, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had
consultations with her Indian counterparts on several
occasions during this period. "We had visits of Indian
diplomats wherein we were able to confer closely with India,"
he said.

After every co-chair meeting involving France, Britain,
the United States and Japan, Boucher said India has always
been informed about it.

"We always inform India and confer with India. So we are
very much involved with India on the Sri Lankan situation,"
Boucher said. PTI