The White House has said US President Barack Obama and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had broad agreement on the steps that needed to be taken to spur the global economic growth.

Speaking at a news conference in Washington, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said Obama spoke to Dr. Singh a day earlier over phone ahead of the G-20 Summit.

They talked about the G-20 agenda. Both the leaders would be attending the next week's G-20 summit in Los Cabos in Mexico.

However, no bilateral meeting between the two has been scheduled.

He said the US had continued its strategic dialogue with India that ran across a range of different sectors.

Rhodes said the two countries wanted to see deeper strategic cooperation in dealing with the future security of South Asia and Afghanistan as the United States draws down there.

In reply to a question, he said Washington would like to see deeper economic cooperation, including increased US exports and commercial ties, with New Delhi.

And that's something that was discussed in recent days and the President is personally very supportive of those efforts, Rhodes added.