Washington: Describing the meetings between the US officials and India's National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra last week as "very successful", the United States has said a wide variety of subjects including enhanced cooperation in high technology and commerce figured prominently during the discussions.

"It did cover a wide variety of subjects, including India's keen interest in pressing forward with high technology, commerce and civil nuclear cooperation," US State Department spokesman Phil Reeker said on May 12.

"These were areas that were, as you recall, first outlined by President Bush and Prime Minister Vajpayee in November 2001, and they are areas where we have taken a number of steps", Reeker said, adding "I would just point you to the fact that we are going to hold the first session of the High Technology Cooperation Group in June."

The Group, he said, will meet both in India and the United States.

The civil nuclear cooperation will be within the framework of US dual-use policies, he said.

Referring to US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's visits to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said in both Pakistan and India, Armitage discussed the expanding bilateral relationship that the United States has with each country and commended both governments on their renewed efforts begun last month by Prime Minister Vajpayee's speech in Srinagar and followed by Prime Minister Jamali's telephone call that "began a process to resolve their differences".

PTI