WASHINGTON (PTI): The sale of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to India is "not on the table right now", a senior US Administration official has said even as the Pentagon takes steps to enhance defence trade relationship with New Delhi.
"This is not on the table right now. It has not been requested. We have not offered," Andrew Shapiro, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, told a group of reporters in a breakfast meeting with Defence Writers Group.
"At this particular moment, I can't point to something concrete. As the relationship develops, we will see what happens in all short of areas," Shapiro said when asked about the news reports in this regard following a recent Pentagon report on US-India Security Cooperation indicating possible sale of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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