ICET will accelerate US strategic technology partnership with India: Sullivan

Washington. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said ahead of the first high-level meeting of the ‘Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies’ (ICET) with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval that the initiative will strengthen America’s technology partnership and strategic partnership with India. Convergence and policy alignment will accelerate. Doval and Sullivan will meet with their respective delegations at the White House on Tuesday. Doval has reached Washington for ICET. ICET was mentioned in a joint statement for the first time after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden in Tokyo in May 2022.

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 authoritarian regimes in the region. “ICET is much more than technology collaboration, it is a platform to accelerate our strategic convergence and policy alignment,” Sullivan said at a high-level roundtable organized by the US India Business Council (USIBC) of the US Chambers of Commerce on Monday. US Commerce Minister Gina Raimondo and Doval also participated in this round table conference. Sullivan said the US and Indian governments will make a “list of priorities”, “first to remove barriers on both sides, to enable everyone’s ambition”.

The Indian Embassy in the US tweeted, “Gina Ramondo, Doval and Jake Sullivan met representatives of industry, academia and think tanks at a roundtable organized by the US India Business Council (USIBC) of the US Chambers of Commerce.” Had a detailed discussion on the ecosystem of India-US trust partnership. He said that he would work with Doval to remove obstacles on both sides. Doval stressed on the need to convert intentions and ideas into actions and specific results through focused steps in a time-bound manner. Doval and India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu underlined India’s remarkable potential for technology development and absorption.

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