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Secretary Pritzker,
My Ministerial colleague, Nirmala Sitharaman,
Friends from the media,
I am delighted to welcome Secretary Kerry and Secretary Pritzker in New Delhi for the second Strategic
and Commercial Dialogue between India and the United States.
In my meeting with Secretary Kerry, we had a very productive exchange of views on key bilateral,
regional and global issues. Let me begin with global issues.
Secretary Kerry and I discussed at length the issue of terrorism, which is the key challenge to the
international community, and the foremost threat to international peace and security. I am happy to
note that there was a "meeting of minds on this issue. I briefed Secretary Kerry on the continuing
problem of cross-border terrorism that India and the larger region faces from Pakistan. We both agreed
that nations must not maintain double standards, such as the categorization of good and bad terrorists,
nor must they act as sanctuaries and safe havens for terrorist organizations. We reaffirmed the urgent
necessity for Pakistan to dismantle safe havens for terrorists and criminal networks including Lashkar-eToiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and D Company. Secretary Kerry and I also agreed on the need for Pakistan to
do more to bring the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai and 2016 Pathankot terrorist attacks to justice
quickly.
At the same time, Secretary Kerry and I spoke on the need to strengthen the international legal regime
to counter terrorism. We agreed on additional measures to strengthen our counter-terrorism
cooperation, specifically, to work for early operationalization of the Agreement on exchange of
information on known or suspected terrorists. We will also intensify intelligence sharing and continue to
work closely to get terrorist entities listed by the UN system, by coordinating our approach to the UN
1267 Committee.
We also had a detailed exchange of views on climate change and clean energy issues. Both our countries
attach high importance to the full implementation of the Paris Agreement, in the finalization of which
President Obama and Prime Minister Modi played key roles.
We have agreed to scale up our collaboration in clean energy and to quickly operationalize the various
initiatives that were announced during Prime Ministers visit to facilitate investments in this sector from
US into India. We look forward to working with the US to ensure the success of the International Solar
Alliance.
We also agreed to work together on the implementation of Agenda 2030, through its 17 Sustainable
Developmental Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are entirely consistent with many of our Governments flagship
domestic initiatives such as "Skill India, Make in India, "Swachch Bharat. Given the fact that we
account for 1/6th of humanity, success or failure in realizing Agenda 2030 or fulfilling the SDGs, will