Obama looking forward to his India trip: US

OBAMA-INDIA

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Sep 10 (PTI) US President Barack Obama is
looking forward to his maiden trip to India in November, a
senior administration official has said describing that the
relationship between the two countries is vitally important.
"The President looks forward to his trip to India," State
Department spokesman, P J Crowley, told foreign journalists at
the Washington Foreign Press Center.
"As we've said many times, it is a vitally important
relationship to the region and to the world," Crowley said in
response to a question.
"The world's oldest democracy and largest democracy
should have constructive relations, and we do.
India, as an emerging global player, will be essential to
solving challenges in the region, Afghanistan being one, and
challenges globally, climate change, you know, being one," he
said when asked about the agenda during the Obama trip to
India.
A day earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had
said that US is laying the foundation for an indispensable
partnership with India, and this effort would be bolstered by
Obama's November visit.
"India, the world's largest democracy, has a very large
convergence of fundamental values and a broad range of both
national and regional interests, and we are laying the
foundation for an indispensable partnership," Clinton said in
her major foreign policy speech at the Council on Foreign
Relations, a Washington-based think-tank.
"President Obama will use his visit in November to take
our relationship to the next level," Clinton said referring to
the scheduled visit of the US President to India in the first
half of November.
The Secretary of State said US is also taking into
account the countries that are growing rapidly and already
exercising influence, like China, India, Turkey, Mexico,
Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa as well as Russia.
Deepening engagement with these emerging centres of
influence is one of the major steps for the US.
At his daily news conference, Crowley said that India is
an anchor of stability in the region.
"We recognize that India is an anchor of stability in a
critical part of the world," he said, adding that India will
have to play a significant role in the global action to combat
climate change.
Noting that US has an ongoing strategic dialogue with
India, he said US believes earnestly that the world's oldest
democracy and the world's largest democracy have a great deal
in common.
"And in fact India can be -- as the Secretary (of State)
said in her remarks today, developing new partners who are
able to assume greater responsibility for critical issues in
the future," Crowley said. PTI LKJ RET
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