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India`s rise on global stage is in America's interest:US
Washington, Oct 28 (PTI) Ahead of President Barack
Obama's India trip next week, a top US official Thursday said
India's rise and its strength and progress on the global stage
is deeply in the strategic interest of the United States.
"The US-Indian partnership for a number of years has
been a genuine bipartisan priority in Washington. Same is true
in India. Over the last decade, through three administrations
of both of our parties and two Indian governments of different
parties, we've transformed the relationship," Under Secretary
of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns said.
"India's rise and its strength and progress on the
global stage is deeply in the strategic interest of the United
States," he told reporters at a special White House briefing.
Burns said President Obama has called Indo-US ties a
defining partnership of the 21st century, and in many ways the
two countries are "natural partners".
"We're the world's two largest democracies. We're both
big, diverse, tolerant societies. We're two of the world's
largest economies. We both have an increasing stake in global
stability and prosperity, especially across Asia and the
Pacific," he observed.
Noting that the defence cooperation between the two
countries is expanding in ways that were hard to imagine a
decade ago, he said India now holds more defence exercises
every year with the US than it does with any other country.
"Some USD 4 billion in defence sales have been made by
the US to India over the last couple of years alone, with more
possibilities ahead. India is today one of the biggest
contributors to UN peacekeeping forces," he said.
"We have a lot to gain by working together in high-
tech cooperation and innovation. The civilian nuclear deal
that was completed at the end of the last administration
removed the single biggest irritant in our relationship and
opened the door to wider cooperation. We've worked hard in
this administration to follow through and completing, for
example, a reprocessing agreement between the US and India six
months ahead of schedule," he said.
"We look forward to US companies contributing to
Indian civil nuclear development. And the signing today by the
Indian government in Vienna of the Convention on Supplemental
Compensation is a very positive step toward ensuring that
international standards apply and that US companies are going
to have a level playing field on which to compete," he said.
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Obama's India trip next week, a top US official Thursday said
India's rise and its strength and progress on the global stage
is deeply in the strategic interest of the United States.
"The US-Indian partnership for a number of years has
been a genuine bipartisan priority in Washington. Same is true
in India. Over the last decade, through three administrations
of both of our parties and two Indian governments of different
parties, we've transformed the relationship," Under Secretary
of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns said.
"India's rise and its strength and progress on the
global stage is deeply in the strategic interest of the United
States," he told reporters at a special White House briefing.
Burns said President Obama has called Indo-US ties a
defining partnership of the 21st century, and in many ways the
two countries are "natural partners".
"We're the world's two largest democracies. We're both
big, diverse, tolerant societies. We're two of the world's
largest economies. We both have an increasing stake in global
stability and prosperity, especially across Asia and the
Pacific," he observed.
Noting that the defence cooperation between the two
countries is expanding in ways that were hard to imagine a
decade ago, he said India now holds more defence exercises
every year with the US than it does with any other country.
"Some USD 4 billion in defence sales have been made by
the US to India over the last couple of years alone, with more
possibilities ahead. India is today one of the biggest
contributors to UN peacekeeping forces," he said.
"We have a lot to gain by working together in high-
tech cooperation and innovation. The civilian nuclear deal
that was completed at the end of the last administration
removed the single biggest irritant in our relationship and
opened the door to wider cooperation. We've worked hard in
this administration to follow through and completing, for
example, a reprocessing agreement between the US and India six
months ahead of schedule," he said.
"We look forward to US companies contributing to
Indian civil nuclear development. And the signing today by the
Indian government in Vienna of the Convention on Supplemental
Compensation is a very positive step toward ensuring that
international standards apply and that US companies are going
to have a level playing field on which to compete," he said.
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