US, India should work jointly to dismantle terror infra:Roemer

New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) Describing Lashkar-e-Toiba as
the "enemy of both US and India", US Ambassador to India
Timothy Roemer Thursday said it is in the common interest to
work together to dismantle terror infrastructure.

"LeT is enemy of both US and India. Working together
on how to mitigate, dismantle infrastructure that is the
common interest for India and US. Regional areas of security
cooperation and defence are the areas to work on together,"
the Ambassador said at a Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII) function here in Indian national capital New Delhi.

Noting that US President Barack Obama treats
relationship with India as very important, he said the
forthcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to
America will provide with an opportunity to expand the
strategic dialogue between the two countries.

"India's Prime Minister's visit is coming in November
and we will try to look how we can expand our strategic
dialogue-- energy security and energy cooperation is one of
the key strategic dialogues," he said.

The Ambassador also said the recent visit of Indian
Home Minister P Chidambaram to the US was "very successful".

"He talked about more cooperation between the two
countries. He talked about terrorism, exchange of forensic lab
technology. We learnt lessons from our mistakes. We have now
improved the deficiencies.

"There are many areas where we can cooperate like in
best business practices, homeland security, defence trade deal
and we think these are the growing areas for the US and
India," he said. PTI