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Red Carpet welcome for Manmohan Singh at White House | Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh received a red carpet welcome at the White House in Washington DC on Tuesday. The meeting between Dr Singh and President Barack
Obama is considered critical to showing Washington's commitment to New Delhi in
a region where its rivals, China and Pakistan, are U.S. priorities. Dr. Singh
has been honored with the first state visit of the 10-month-old U.S. administration.
Obama said he hoped that as leading economies both India and the US could strengthen
the global economic recovery. "As leading economies the United States and Indian
can strengthen the global economic recovery, promote trade that create jobs for
both our people and pursue growth that is balanced and sustained. "As nuclear
powers we can be co-partners in preventing the spread of the worlds' most deadly
weapons, securing lose nuclear material from terrorist and pursuing our shared
vision of world without nuclear weapons," said the U.S. President. "This is the
India that America welcomes today, a leader in Asia and around the world," Obama
added. Prime Minister Singh laid stress on strengthening India-US bilateral relations.
"Our relations have been transformed and today they encompass cooperation in all
areas of human activities. Mr President I come today to build upon the successes
and to strengthen our multi-faceted relationship. We seek to broaden and deepen
our strategic partnership and to work with the United States to meet the challenges
of a fast changing world in this 21st century," he said. Dr. Singh said India
should cooperate in making a nuclear weapon free world. "We should cooperate in
addressing global challenges of combating terrorism, making our environment cleaner
and making a world free of nuclear weapons," he said. The U.S.-India summit is
expected to have focussed heavily on efforts to enhance economic links that have
blossomed since India's market reforms in the early 1990s. Two-way trade grew
to nearly 50 billion dollars last year from just 5 billion dollars in 1990, turning
the United States into India's largest trading partner. The two leaders are also
expected to try to narrow their differences over climate change and seek to speed
up completion of a 2005 civilian nuclear deal that has yet to be implemented. |
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