America Can Be India's Best Partner: Nisha Desai Biswal

Friday, 06 February 2015, 23:15 IST
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WASHINGTON: The US shares a special and unique friendship with India and can be its "best partner" in promoting peace, prosperity and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, a senior Obama administration official has said.

"America can be India's best partner. We are indeed, as the President has said, indispensable partner in promoting peace, prosperity and stability in the Indo-Pacific region," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Nisha Desai Biswal said.

"Our friendship with India is special and unique and the growing US-India ties are important but not exclusive to the region," she said.

Biswal said the India-US relationship by its very nature cuts across every field of human endeavour and that is a reflection of the two societies and the convergence between the two cultures.

The progress in the relationship demonstrates that the US and India are not just natural partners, she said.

Describing the last month's Obama visit as "incredibly important and consequential one", Biswal said for the first time in India-US bilateral relationship there can be no doubt about the strength of the joint strategic vision between the two nations.

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Source: PTI