US ready for high-level interactions with Modi

The United States has said it is ready for high-level interactions with India’s Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi, but it will wait to hear from his government on the logistics. The US does not want to ‘impose an architecture or a time-table’ on the new government. ‘We will be waiting to hear from them’, US assistant secretary of state for India and southeast Asia Nisha Desai Biswal has said. Biswal, the US State Department’s senior official who was born in India’s Gujarat state, was speaking to reporters in Washington DC who are working for Indian news agencies and organisations. Her boss, secretary of state John Kerry, is keen to visit India ‘soon’ to meet Modi and re-extend President Barack Obama’s invitation to him to visit the US. The annual strategic dialogue between the two countries, held alternately in their respective capitals, could have afforded Kerry that chance if the dialogue was happening in Delhi, according to The Hindustan Times.