US terms India as 'great power'

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Jan 15 (PTI) Describing India as a "great
power," the US has said it has deepened its ties with New
Delhi, including through the extraordinary trip of President
Barack Obama to the country in November last year.
"We fully embraced India's rise as a great power and
a great partner for the United States," US National Security
Adviser Tom Donilon told reporters at a White House briefing
Friday evening.
Donilon's remarks came within less than an hour of
the Oval office meeting between Obama and his visiting
Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari.
Donilon said the US so far has been under-involved in
Asia and Obama is all set to correct that.
"We have really deepened our relationship with India,"
he said at his briefing on Chinese President Hu Jintao's
upcoming visit here during which he explained in detail
increasing American relationship with Asian countries
including Japan and South Korea.
Speaking highly of Obama's November India trip, Donilon
said this was the first visit by an American President to the
country since March 2006.
"There was an effort there where we were really
trying to make really kind of a step function increase in the
quality of the relationship and had a different set -- it just
had a different strategic dynamic to it," Donilon said.
"Three days there in India, again, trying to build
out each of the aspects of the relationship. It was a
different project," said the National Security Adviser. PTI
LKJ
HMI


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