India said the US is aware of its concerns with regard to Pakistan and hoped that Washington would not do anything that would "adversely affect" its interest.
"Secretary (of State, Hillary) Clinton is quite aware of India's various concerns with reference to Pakistan. This has been discussed with Clinton and also at official level in greater details," External Affairs Minister S M Krishna told reporters at the end of his four-day trip to Washington. Krishna is leading a high-powered delegation and co-chaired the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue here along with Clinton.
"The message that I get from US Administration is that they are aware of our concerns and that they are not going to do anything which would adversely affect India's interest," Krishna said. Earlier, Krishna said that the strengthening of bilateral strategic relationship with US is not at the cost of any third country.
Krishna, who is in Washington as head of the Indian delegation at the first Indo-US Strategic Dialogue said, "The relationship between India and the US was never to be expected at the cost of other countries as much as our relationship with a third country would not be at the cost of the United States." He said this in response to a question at a news conference at the end of his four-day trip to Washington.
Krishna, who co-chaired the first Cabinet-level Strategic Dialogue between India and the United States left for New York. He is scheduled to leave for India from New York on Saturday. "We understand where our interests lie, we understand where our concerns lie and we also understand where there could possibly be convergence. So we work on that," said the External Affairs Minister.
"India has relationships with various countries and the relationships with different countries are at different level. With United States since Secretary (Hillary) Clinton came to Delhi last summer and my visit here for this strategic dialogue, the whole idea is to move closer in terms of addressing the concerns of both of our countries," Krishna said.
"Our concerns should be addressed by the US and their concerns should be addressed by us. This is the ground rule on which we proceed and this is the ground rule on which the strategic dialogue took place," said the External Affairs Minister.
