Washington: Indicating the bipartisan support that U.S.-India ties enjoy, Democrats have now vowed to "continue to invest in a long-term strategic partnership with India to support its ability to serve as a regional economic anchor" as they formally approved President Barack Obama's second run for the White House.
Reaffirmation of the ties with India came in the Democratic platform approved at the party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina that also suggested that alliances which had been the cornerstone of U.S. engagement "had been badly damaged under the Bush administration."
In seeking to rebalance U.S. foreign policy under Obama, the Democration party resolution said, Washington had turned greater attention towards Asia-Pacific region" given Asia's "status as the fastest growing economic region, with most of the world's nuclear powers and about half of the world's population."
"...And we will continue to invest in a long-term strategic partnership with India to support its ability to serve as a regional economic anchor and provider of security in the broader Indian Ocean region," it said.
Last week the Republican platform approved at their convention in Tampa, Florida, had declared India a "geopolitical ally and a strategic trading partner".
"We welcome a stronger relationship with the world's largest democracy, India, both economic and cultural, as well as in terms of national security," the party had declared as it formally named Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential candidate.
