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Greater Indo-US cooperation needed on non-proliferation and defence: Burns | Outlining the Obama Administration's New Strategic Dialogue, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns said that greater Indo-US cooperation
can be expected on counter-terrorism, reconstruction in Afghanistan, non-proliferation, and defence sector during Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's visit to
the United States. Dr. Singh will visit Washington on November 24, 2009, becoming
the first state visitor to be hosted by President Barack Obama. This event will
be widely viewed as evidence of the importance attached to maintaining the Indo-US
relations, according to the policy brief of Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. Discussing the Obama Administration's approach to Indo-US relations, Burns
said the United States will continue to engage India on such basic issues like
education, scientific exchange, and human development, it will emphasize global
security challenges. Ashley J. Tellis, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, specializing in international security, defense, and
Asian strategic issues, said the White House should seize the moment to make a
bold announcement about the United States support to India's permanent membership
in the UN Security Council during Dr. Singh's visit. "Additionally, the United
States and India can cooperate along several dimensions like non-proliferation
and climate change," he added. Tellis and Teresita Schaffer of the Center for
Strategic and International Studies stressed the need to focus the bilateral dialogue
on high politics and deeper, more substantive concerns. They warned against allowing
issues of low politics - what Tellis called the "dominance of ordinariness"- to
overshadow discussion on core strategic interests. "Both the United States and
India will therefore seek to use Dr. Singh's forthcoming visit to showcase the
promise of bilateral cooperation and to foster enhanced partnership in the five
key areas agreed upon earlier this year-strategic cooperation; energy and climate
change; education and development; economics, trade, and agriculture; science
and technology, health, and innovation," Tellis said Tellis predicted that the
United States will use the occasion of Dr. Singh's visit to reaffirm American
commitment to transforming the relationship, to provide reassurance that US and
Indian goals are aligned, and to build on complementaries that exist between the
two countries. |
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