Marco Rubio Meets India's NSA Ajit Doval | Big Talks On Defence, Counterterrorism, Strategic Ties

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]And on that note, we are shifting our focus to the geopolitical arena with US [music] Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting NSA Ajit Doval in Delhi a number of issues including regional security, counter-terrorism and defense collaboration [music] were discussed.

[00:00:14]The meeting took place at Hyderabad House and was to take forward the agenda set during the Prime Minister level talks with a focus on deepening strategic and economic cooperation. This is the details [music] that we have so far of that conversation that's taken place in that very meeting between the two leaders.

[00:00:32]NSA Ajit Doval and Marco Rubio, administrators of either >> [music] >> governments, one being from the Trump administration and the other from Prime Minister Modi's administration. Very crucial meet, the only reason being A, the timing of this entire [music] visit from Marco Rubio in itself because remember last year there was an entire period of time when there were tensions between India [music] and US when the US had claimed that they came out to broker peace [music] between India and US. They had taken credits for that ceasefire that was finally announced by Pakistan.

[00:01:09]And yet um India was adamant and India kept sticking to their position that no, there was no interference or intervention [music] from a third party.

[00:01:20]It was a matter that was in fact spoken about between the two sides and [music] only solely the two sides, which is the stakeholders India and [music] Pakistan. And the fact that India has been extremely vocal about counter-terrorism being taken up more [music] strictly on a global level. And not just that, it is External Affairs Minister Jaishankar [music] who laid out in very plain but firm terms where India stands when it comes to the matter of national security and integrity of the very country in the