The Biden administration has introduced the re-establishment of the Homeland Security Dialogue with India that was discontinued by the earlier Trump dispensation.
This comes a day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Monday and expressed his want to additional strengthen the partnership between India and his division.
“Mayorkas and Sandhu agreed to re-establish the US-India Homeland Security Dialogue and to discuss important issues such as cybersecurity, emerging technology and addressing violent extremism,” based on a readout of the assembly issued on Tuesday.
It is uncommon for the division to concern a readout of the secretary’s assembly with a international envoy.
“During their discussion, they highlighted the positive engagement that has already taken place during the Biden Administration, including with the Quad, which addressed concrete commitments to cooperate on COVID-19, climate actions, and cybersecurity,” stated the readout.
Mayorkas and Sandhu additionally recognised the necessary contributions of scholars and entrepreneurs which have made each international locations stronger, it stated.
An initiative of the Obama administration, the primary India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in May 2011. The then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano had travelled to India to participate within the dialogue together with her then Indian counterpart Home Minister P Chidambaram.
The second India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in Washington DC in 2013, between Napolitano and the then Home Minister Sushil Kumar.
