ISAS Briefs

By affirming “the indispensable U.S.-India partnership”, US Secretary of State John Kerry is signalling that the recent turbulence in the atmospherics of this equation has quietened now. Such a signal of return to normality was the hallmark of the top American diplomat‟s message2 to mark the 64th anniversary of India‟s Republic Day on 26 January 2014. India‟s External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, too, has, on 23 January, risen above the recently vitiated bilateral atmosphere. These positive signals followed a meeting between Mr Kerry and Mr Khurshid on the sidelines of the Geneva-2 Conference on Syria at Montreux on 22 January.