Manohar Parrikar next meeting with US defence secretary on 29 August

By Payal Dwivedi on August 27, 2016 at 2:21 PM

As India has designated as a major defence partner by US there will be a meeting which will hold on 29 August that means on coming Monday at the Pentagon and US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter would host his Indian counterpart.

The Pentagon on Friday said Carter would host an enhanced honor cordon to welcome Parrikar to the US Defence Department headquarters. Following the arrival ceremony there will be a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial.

And completing that ceremony there will be a bilateral meeting, followed by a joint press conference at the Pentagon, a statement said. ‘This will be Carter’s sixth meeting with Parrikar, and comes just weeks after India was designated a major defence partner of the United States during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s June visit to Washington,’ the Pentagon said. Carter had met Parrikar during a visit to India in April.

‘We are certainly welcoming and hopeful for continuing to move forward on that and continuing to move forward on the fact that we have designated India as a major defence partner and continue to progress in that direction,’ the official added.