United States State Department spokesman Robert Wood, who was in on the meeting on Monday between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [Images] and Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, has said that Clinton would visit India at some point, but that no time-table had been nailed down.

While providing a read-out of the Clinton-Menon meeting Wood was asked if there would be a follow-up meeting between the two countries soon, or if Clinton would be going to India sometime, to which he replied, "At some point, the Secretary will be going to India, but there's isn't any plan at this moment of her travel. But you know, when there is, we'll certainly let you know."

When asked if it could be in the next few months before the Indian elections, Wood said, "I don't know. I don't want to rule anything out, but there was no discussion of a particular timetable for a visit."

Asked if at the Clinton-Menon meeting, whether India's relations with Pakistan were discussed, particularly with regard to the Mumbai terror attacks [Images], the spokesman said, "The subject of the Mumbai attacks did come up in the meeting, and again, the way they discussed the issue was the fact that we've got to do what we can to try to prevent these types of attacks from happening again."

"And, I think you can view it in the overall level of cooperation that both the United States and India are involved in," he said, and added, "And, I think it shows that, this is an issue that is not just an issue for the US and India, it's really a global; it requires a global effort to counter terrorism in the region, but of course, it was an issue that did come up in the meeting."

On Monday, before the meeting between Clinton and Menon, Wood when asked what the State Department's perception was of how things were vis-a-vis Pakistan's investigation of the Mumbai terror attacks, which Islamabad [Images] has admitted emanated from its soil, said, "Overall, our assessment has been that Pakistan has been providing some helpful information. But, clearly, more can be done."

"And, what's critical here is that we do everything in our power to try to bring the folks who are responsible for those attacks to justice," he said.