India, U.S. Working To Ensure No Disruption To Peace In E.Asia

Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 01:34 IST
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WASHIGTON: India and the U.S. would intensify their co-operation to ensure that there is no disruption to the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region "without isolating or putting down" any one, an American official said.

"If you look at East Asia, the preponderance of global GDP and preponderance of global population is to the East of India - in the Indo-Pacific space. So it is entirely logical for the US and India to be talking to each other. We have very significant long term geo-strategic and economic interest in East Asia," a senior U.S. government official.

Diplomats from the two countries recently concluded their sixth-round of India-U.S. East Asia Dialogue - an initiative of the Obama Administration.

The shared challenge between the U.S. and India in the 21st century is that the two sides want to ensure the norms that have benefited them and have benefited rise of global trade and prosperity are maintained and strengthened, said the U.S. officials, who spoke strictly on condition of anonymity.

"We all want to work together in concert to ensure rules based arbitration of international disputes," the official said, adding the countries in the region are among the top economic powers of the world.

And that is why the East Asia Dialogue makes so much sense between the U.S. and India, the official said, noting that the discussion and meeting was to ensure there is good shared approach in reinforcing rules of the world that enhance stability, including greater transparency and greater predictability among states.

"This is not a question of isolating any one or putting down anyone," the official said, without taking the name of any country.
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Source: PTI
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