The US, in an apparent reference to the Devyani Khobragde issue, today said that such challenges should not be allowed to derail the future of its important relationship with India and the two countries needed to deal with differences in a constructive manner.

US National Security Advisor Susan Rice said, every meaningful partnership between powerful nations encounters setbacks. She said, recent events have drawn more attention to our disagreements than to our cooperative efforts but those difficulties should be minor compared to the breadth of our relationship and the magnitude of what we can accomplish together.

Ms. Rice said this in her address to the Aspen Institute US-India Dialogue being held in Washington. She also reiterated the commitment of the Obama Administration to strengthen and deepen the bilateral relationship between the two largest democracies of the world.