US working very closely with India on Sri Lanka: Boucher

A top US official today said the Obama Administration has kept India fully informed and is working very closely with New Delhi on the current Sri Lankan crisis.      

"We have been working very closely with India," the Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Boucher, told a group of South Asian journalists at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department.      

Boucher, who has been actively involved in the Sri Lankan crisis, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had consultations with her Indian counterparts on several occasions during this period. "We had visits of Indian diplomats wherein we were able to confer closely with India," he said.      

After every co-chair meeting involving France, Britain, the United States and Japan, Boucher said India has always been informed about it.     

"We always inform India and confer with India. So we are very much involved with India on the Sri Lankan situation," Boucher said.