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Summary of points taken up at meeting between Obama and Manmohan Singh | | Following are the highlights/briefing points of the meeting between US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh that took place at the White House on Tuesday. • PM had very productive discussion this
morning with President Obama. They had a restricted meeting first which was followed
by a meeting of delegations. The two leaders have established a personal rapport
In his meetings PM conveyed that India wanted to develop a multi-faceted ties
with the US. President Obama reciprocated these sentiments. He said that he admired
PM and valued his advice. • President Obama said that India and the US shared
common values and principles of democracy, openness, respect for fundamental freedom
and human rights. He said India was a rising global power and was increasingly
playing an important role in Asia. US saw its partnership with India as one of
the most important relationships which would contribute to peace, stability and
prosperity in Asia, and the world. • President Obama stated that the relationship
between the United States and India will be one of the defining partnerships of
the 21st century. He emphasized that broadening cooperation between India and
the US was a priority for him. • Both leaders agreed on a set of new initiatives
and MoUs which represent our wide ranging and expanding ties, including a new
Memorandum of Understanding on Counter-Terrorism Cooperation, a new initiative
for collaboration on Clean Energy and Climate Change Initiative, MoUs for collaboration
on R and D in Solar and Wind Energy, promotion of agricultural research, human
resources capacity building, natural resource management, agri-business and food
processing, and collaborative research for increasing food productivity, launch
of a new Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative in which both India and
the US will contribute five million dollars each, expansion of the Fulbright-Nehru
program to provide more student and scholar exchange grants in priority fields
such as science, technology and agriculture. • Both countries hope to establish
a Regional Global Disease Detection Center in India and to build a partnership
with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. • The discussions also
focused on the on-going cooperation in thefield of defence. • Strengthening of
High Technology trade • President Obama and PM reiterated their commitment to
expeditiously complete the remaining steps including the arrangements and procedures
for reprocessing in the area of civil nuclear cooperation. • Focus on disarmament
and non-proliferation • They also had discussions on the situation in Afghanistan. |
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