Washington: Describing India-U.S. relationship as beyond bilateral a regional and a global relationship, a senior Obama administration official has said their strategic partnership would keep growing without a pause for India's upcoming parliamentary elections.
"I don't think that there's any pause. I think everything is moving forward apace," U.S. assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told foreign reporters.
Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh is visiting Washington next week and the two countries have an energy dialogue slated for early next year, noted Biswal when asked about how she saw the partnership evolving after the 2014 elections.
"I think that the relationship will continue to strengthen and deepen and grow, and I think that increasingly it's not just a bilateral relationship, but it is a regional and a global relationship," she said.
President Barack Obama, Biswal noted had "most aptly characterized it" as "a partnership and a relationship that is one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century, and that's because it's a partnership based on shared values, shared approaches."
"And we believe that India provides an incredible example of democratic development, and we want to support that example as one that more and more countries ought to follow," she said.
Biswal also denied that the 2008 landmark India-U.S. civil nuclear deal was in a limbo over India's tough nuclear liability law though it was not making as "fast and as full" progress as they would like it.
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