The India-US 2+2 meeting on Monday comes after a top US official stated previously this week that Washington wishes New Delhi to abandon its "long-term history of non-alignment G77 partnership" with Russia.
Wendy Sherman, the US deputy secretary of state, informed members of the House foreign affairs committee that the United States and India have a very important relationship.
“They are the largest democracy in the world. We have a strong defence relationship with them,” she said.
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