U.S. NATO envoy says alliance open to deepening ties with India

Source: The post is based on the article “U.S. NATO envoy says alliance open to deepening ties with India” published in The Hindu on 1st April 2023

What is the News?

A leading U.S. official has said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is “open” to deepening ties with India. 

What is NATO?

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What did the US official say about NATO’s ties with India?

A US official has said that the NATO alliance is “open to more engagement” with India. 

Some informal exchanges have taken place between some NATO and Indian officials on the sidelines of the annual Raisina Dialogue in Delhi.

NATO currently has 40 different partners around the world. The NATO foreign ministerial meeting will take place in Brussels in April 2023, and it has invited Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan to attend it. 

The four countries of the Indo-Pacific region have formal partnerships with the mega alliance. 

What is the significance of this statement?

These remarks come at a time when major geopolitical changes have been seen in Europe and the Indo-Pacific region amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Chinese aggressive actions from ASEAN to India. 

Russia has blamed the current Ukraine conflict on the expansion of NATO, something that has been dismissed by the member countries of the alliance.