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India is key actor on world stage, extraordinarily important to US: Obama | Visiting US President Barack Obama on Monday described India as a key actor on the world stage, and a country that has already emerged as a world power.
Stating
that this was view shared by both Republicans and Democrats back home, President
Obama told ANI at a joint press conference that he addressed at Hyderabad House
with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here, that as far as he was concerned,
the relationship between the United States and India was "extraordinarily important
for me." "First of all, this relationship is extraordinarily important to me,
and don't just take my word for that, I think, look at our actions," Obama said.
He further went on to say: "Obviously, this trip has been of enormous significance.
It is no accident that this is the largest time that I have spent in a country
since I have been president, and both the prime minister and I have alluded, so
this is why I think this partnership can be so important." Describing India and
the United States as the world's two largest democracies, Obama said: "We have
both a set of values and principles that we share, that I believe are universal,
the belief of/ in individual liberty, freedom of the press and freedom of political
assembly, in human rights." He further said that both countries have large market
economies, and therefore, in that context, the nurturing of the bilateral commercial
and strategic partnership was and would continue to remain important to the
leadership
of the two nations. "We both have large market economies and the person-to-person
contacts between India and the United States are unparallel. We have millions
of Indian Americans who are helping to grow our country each and every day," said
Obama. "And we have hundreds of thousands of students from India who are
studying
in the United States, and bringing back what they have learnt to help develop
India," he added. He said: "And, so, on the commercial level, person-to-person
level, on a strategic level, I think this partnership is incredibly important."
He said that apart from him, his predecessors - Presidents George W. Bush and
Bill Clinton - each has emphasized why the relationship with India is important,
were and are committed to nurturing this relationship. He said that the business
leaders who had accompanied him on this visit to India are working actively in
the private sector "to strengthen those ties". "We want to make sure that our
governments are acting in the same constructive way. If we do so, then I think
that is not only going to benefit India and the United States, but I think, it
will ultimately benefit the world as well," said Obama.
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