India, July 2 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the United States and India will sign very soon a new 10-year Framework for Major Defense Partnership between the two countries.
Hegseth made this announcement Tuesday after meeting India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the Pentagon.
The secretary said both the U.S. and India are mutually aware of the security concerns in the Indo-Pacific region, and both nations have the ability to counter that threat together. He also touched on U.S. efforts to provide India with the tools needed to counter threats in the Indo-Pacific.
"The United States is very pleased with the successful integration of many U.S. defense items into India's inventory. And building on t...