New York: US Secretary of State John Kerry praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and laid out a roadmap for a long-term strategic partnership between Washington and New Delhi.
Kerry, while addressing an audience at the Center for American Progress, said the ties of US with India will most affect the direction of the 21st century.
He said that it was a “potentially transformative moment” for relations between India and the United States, as the two countries were determined to deliver on the “strategic and historic opportunities” they can create together.
Kerry said in his speech, “There is a new government in India, with a new set of priorities, and new possibilities.”
He also hails that the vision of Modi about “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas” and strongly come in support it. He claimed that the election campaign slogan of Bharatiya Janata Party was a great vision and they also want to support the concept.
“This is a potentially transformative moment in our partnership with India, and we’re determined to deliver on the strategic and historic opportunities that we can create together,” the US Secretary of State added in a major foreign policy speech on India.
But Kerry, who leaves for India Tuesday night for the next round of the annual strategic dialogue in New Delhi, also firmly, but gently, trotted out all of US’s ongoing concerns.
He said, “Prime Minister Modi has said that young people have a natural instinct to rise like a flame. And he has spoken about India’s duty to nurture that instinct, and we believe, frankly, that’s a duty for both of our nations.”
Bureau Report
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