U.S. Sees Strengthening Of Relationship with India under Modi

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration hopes that Indo-U.S. strategic relationship would not only strengthen but would also reach a new high under Narendra Modi-led government, which has earned a strong and decisive mandate from the people of the country the first in 30 years.

The India-U.S. relationship is not just about bilateral ties, but more about "India's role at global stage," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal said.

"We see that there is tremendous scope for what we can do together that would benefit not only our own two countries but also hopefully have global benefit," she told a group of Indian reporters in a media roundtable.

"The U.S. India relationship is important not only because it is a relationship that advances the interest of the United States and that of India, but it is an important relationship because when the world’s largest democracies and world’s largest democracies partner together, we have the ability to advance and bring global benefit," she said.

"This is what drives us even through tough times, because at the end of the day this is the relationship that meets the aspirations of large segment of humanity," said Biswal, who would be headed for Central Asia soon.