Less similar, yet one thing on which last 4 US Presidents agreed is importance of India: EAM Jaishan

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that Indian has a very strong political, strategic, security, technology, economic relationship and defence corporation with the United States. In an interactive video session at the India Global Week, he said President Donald Trump and his three predecessors Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton were on the same page on the importance of India and the need for strengthening the bilateral relationship. "Think back at last four US presidents-Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton and you would agree that you can't find four people in the world less similar to each other. Yet one thing on which they agreed is the importance of India and need to strengthen that relationship," he said. He was replying to a question on bipartisan support in the US over its ties with India. "It is a relationship I would say which took about six decades to discover itself, but having done so, it is making up for a lost time," he said. 'Indo-US relations grew stronger in last 2 decades' The foreign minister emphasised on various facets of the strategic relationship including in the areas of security and defence, technology, trade and people-to-people relationship. "I see this certainly as one of our key relationships. But I expect it is a relationship which will become more important even in the American calculus of the world," he said. "I would say somewhere values do matter. Indians and Americans today have a better understanding of each other's society, and therefore a much closer appreciation. They sort of feel for each other in a way in which many countries perhaps do not do," he added. Jaishankar further stated that the relationship between the two countries has grown stronger in the last two decades. "It is not just for the administration of the day though, obviously, that is critical. I think we have a very strong, very diverse relationship across the American polity, especially in the American Congress," the EAM said. India Global Week is organised annually by London-based India Inc. This year's event was entitled '#BeTheRevival: India and A Better New World'.