New Delhi, June 30 (ANI): US Ambassador Timothy J Roemer, while bidding farewell on his last day in office, expressed hope that partnership between India and the United States will only grow and strengthen in the future.
Addressing mediapersons here, Roemer said: "In the last two years, we have seen significant success in the relationship between United States and India. First of all, we have seen Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being honoured for a state dinner given by the Barack Obama administration. (Secondly) we saw the President of United States coming to India, which was a historic and landmark visit talking about India's global relationship with United States."
"Thirdly, we have greatly expanded and approved our counter terrorism and intelligence sharing. Fourth, we have seen significant progress on defence issues and strategic defence cooperation including the recently a great 2C17 sale. It will give India more muscle and working abilities on their efforts on humanitarian and disaster relief efforts and regional," he added.
Roemer further said people-to-people and business-to-business ties were the basis of Indo-US relations.
Emphasising that both nations share common strategic interest in Asia and Africa, Roemer said: ""We have also seen great and expanding cooperation between United States and India on regional issues. We are working together more on Afghanistan, where we have common strategic interest in the outcome there."
"We are working together on reviving foodstuff for Africa and we are working more closely on issues such as Bangladesh. This reflects the common strategic interest that the two countries have in Asia and as President Obama said India is indispensable partner for the 21st century with United States working for democracy, working for peace and working for global development," he added.
Standing by India's civil nuclear programme, Roemer said: "The United States has said it "strongly and vehemently" supports the NSG clean waiver for India and hoped that the civil nuclear deal between the two countries will continue to move in a positive direction."
"I want to say that the US and the Obama Administration strongly and vehemently support the clean waiver for India. The 123 civil nuclear legislation also underscores our support for India in this debate that is going on and our law also points to the clean waiver for India," he added.
The 46-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), the elite nuclear club, last week decided to push for more stringent norms that govern technology transfer for reprocessing technology.
When asked to comment on the issue of pat-down searches on Indian dignitaries at the US airports, Roemer said America was working on these issues to prevent their recurrence in future.
"When Janet Napolitano (US Homeland Security Secretary) was here, she said that we are working to improve how when you have a minister or a very important person (VIP) travelling to the United States... takes place without incidence. We are coordinating more and more on travel itineraries, so that those experiences don't take place in future," he said. (ANI)
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