Meets With Government Leaders, Members of Parliament, and Business Leaders
U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, traveled to India January 17-19 to advocate for Montana’s pulse crops and reaffirm the U.S.-India strategic partnership. The trip included meetings in New Delhi with Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal, members of parliament, and U.S. and Indian business leaders.
“I came to India to reaffirm our two countries’ shared values and strategic partnership and to advocate on behalf of Montana’s pulse crop farmers. I appreciated Minister Goyal for listening to our farmers’ concerns and will continue to work with President Trump to press this important priority,” said Daines.
“As we work to take the partnership between our two nations to the next level in cooperation, I will ensure that senior government officials will regularly travel to India. As a key member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with extensive experience in Asia, Senator Daines’ meetings with official and private sector stakeholders in New Delhi were instrumental in advancing our bilateral relationship,” said U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor.
During meetings with senior Indian officials and parliamentarians, Daines discussed growing U.S.-India defense cooperation, mutual efforts to secure supply chains, and the importance of the U.S.-India strategic partnership to ensuring our shared security and preserving a stable and open Indo-Pacific region. While in India, Daines pursued interests of the Trump Administration as well as the people of Montana, including urging favorable pulse crop provisions in any future trade agreements between the United States and India. Montana is the top producer of pulse crops in the United States, and India is the top consumer in the world. Daines sought acceleration of the active and ongoing talks towards concluding a fair and reciprocal bilateral trade deal.
Daines sent a letter to President Trump last week emphasizing the importance of treating pulse crops favorably in future trade agreements. Read the letter HERE.
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