Meanwhile, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters Monday that when Secretary of State John Kerry called the new Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj last week to congratulate her, he also invited her to visit the US at the earliest opportunity.
"I'm not aware of that being scheduled yet, but we'll look forward to that," she said. "So the next step will be scheduling her visit to the United States."
Kerry had also "reaffirmed the US commitment to our strategic partnership" and conveyed our desire to continue broadening and deepening our bilateral ties."
US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, Nisha Desai Biswal will be in New Delhi June 6-9 "to meet a range of officials". But Psaki did not have the details as yet.
