“We have to respect the rights of all our citizens irrespective of creed and allow them to protest in peace without the fear of reprisal or retribution, without fear of being jailed”, he added. “We will also intensify intelligence sharing and continue to work closely to get terrorist entities listed by the United Nations system, by coordinating our approach to the United Nations 1267 Committee”. He said, India is an essential partner and the United States has welcomed its rise.
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Kerry said that the US and India reached an agreement earlier Tuesday on financing to help India meet what he called its “ambitious” renewable energy targets.
“I don’t know if you came in boats. but I salute you”, said a smiling US Secretary of State John Kerry to a packed audience at IIT, Delhi after his carcade was stuck in Delhi traffic as heavy rains led to waterlogging on roads.
“The choices we make in our energy policy will decide whether our planet survives or not”, Kerry said. “For US, it has been hard to provide India with cost-efficient alternatives, but we are looking at working on it”.
Mr. Kerry’s decision took the government by surprise, as his final engagement in Delhi was to have been a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday afternoon.
John Kerry, US Secretary of State arrived to New Delhi on Monday to take part in the 2nd Indo-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, where he discussed about important matters like terrorism emerge from Pakistan, economic issues. I believe that in the last month’s progress is being made and the Pakistanis are moving at a greater pace.
After Foreign Minister Swaraj reiterated long-running accusations that Pakistan was “providing safe havens to terror groups”, Kerry also urged Islamabad to do more to combat extremists operating from its territory.
“More than 50,000 people have been killed. people define a great religion Islam in a way that doesn’t reflect that religion”.
Pakistan’s army has launched military operations in North Waziristan, where Haqqani is based.
Responding to a question on Kerry getting delayed for events and having to cancel visits to religious sites due to inclement weather, Kirby pointed out that many meetings at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department including his daily news conference does not start on time even when there is no rain.
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In a speech in Bangladesh, which like India has been the target of numerous terrorist attacks, Kerry made an oft-noted point that violent extremism is a scourge that must be fought 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
