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Partnership with US vital to achieve developmental goals:India
Lalit K Jha
Washington, Jul 14 (PTI) India's top diplomat in the
United States Tuesday said partnership with the US is
important to achieve its national developmental goals and
argued that the transformation of Indo-US relationship has
been the most significant feature of New Delhi's foreign
policy in decades.
"India considers partnership with the US important for
achieving its national development goals," Indian Ambassador
to the US Meera Shankar said in her address to the prestigious
World Affairs Council in San Diego, California.
She noted that Indo-US relations have undergone a
historic transformation over the course of the past decade.
Shankar said both US President Barack Obama and Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have reiterated a commitment to
continue the process of further strengthening the ties, to
build on the impressive progress of recent years to build what
the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as the third
level of India-US relations.
"From the perspective of India, transformation of her
relations with the US has been probably the most significant
feature of its foreign policy over the past decade," she said.
"We have nearly 30 forums of bilateral engagement,
spanning virtually all aspects of human endeavor. Our
political dialogue has grown to an unprecedented level, our
strategic understanding has deepened and encompasses both our
region and the world and our bilateral cooperation has entered
new frontiers," Shankar said.
Shankar said the visit of Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton to India later this month will establish the framework
of Indo-US engagement and priorities in the coming years.
The two countries, she said, now speak to each other
on crises and challenges around the world. The militaries of
two countries, once unfamiliar with each other, now hold
regular dialogue and exercises in the air and on land and sea,
she said.
Counter-terrorism cooperation, which actually precedes
9/11 but saw modest progress until now, has acquired new
momentum and substance after the Mumbai terrorist attack in
November 2008, she added. PTI LKJ
DDC
Washington, Jul 14 (PTI) India's top diplomat in the
United States Tuesday said partnership with the US is
important to achieve its national developmental goals and
argued that the transformation of Indo-US relationship has
been the most significant feature of New Delhi's foreign
policy in decades.
"India considers partnership with the US important for
achieving its national development goals," Indian Ambassador
to the US Meera Shankar said in her address to the prestigious
World Affairs Council in San Diego, California.
She noted that Indo-US relations have undergone a
historic transformation over the course of the past decade.
Shankar said both US President Barack Obama and Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have reiterated a commitment to
continue the process of further strengthening the ties, to
build on the impressive progress of recent years to build what
the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as the third
level of India-US relations.
"From the perspective of India, transformation of her
relations with the US has been probably the most significant
feature of its foreign policy over the past decade," she said.
"We have nearly 30 forums of bilateral engagement,
spanning virtually all aspects of human endeavor. Our
political dialogue has grown to an unprecedented level, our
strategic understanding has deepened and encompasses both our
region and the world and our bilateral cooperation has entered
new frontiers," Shankar said.
Shankar said the visit of Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton to India later this month will establish the framework
of Indo-US engagement and priorities in the coming years.
The two countries, she said, now speak to each other
on crises and challenges around the world. The militaries of
two countries, once unfamiliar with each other, now hold
regular dialogue and exercises in the air and on land and sea,
she said.
Counter-terrorism cooperation, which actually precedes
9/11 but saw modest progress until now, has acquired new
momentum and substance after the Mumbai terrorist attack in
November 2008, she added. PTI LKJ
DDC
