U.S., India try to form closer, high-profile partnership (2)
U.S., India try to form closer, high-profile partnership (2)
17:05, November 26, 2009 
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President Obama hosted a state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the South Lawn of the White House lawn on Tuesday, Nov. 24, and he said he had accepted Singh's invitation to visit India in 2010.
Ever since Obama assumed presidency in late January, Pakistan has occupied a position of crucial importance in the U.S.' South Asia policies, and India fears that it would be turned into a "variable factor" itself in complex geopolitical equations with merely a regional role to play. Indian strategists, however, come to realize that the U.S. hinges on Pakistan and Afghanistan instead of India in counter-terrorism in South Asia, and India's involvement in the U.S. efforts to fight terrorism is devised only to ease of the strained relations between India and Pakistan.
As a matter of fact, public opinions however deem that such a vital, high-profile reception of the Indian prime minister by Washington D.C. was intended precisely to dissolve some concerns for Indian-Pakistan relations.
The American side has referred to India as an indispensable or irreplaceable partner in the fight against terrorism in the South Asia region and or on whether President Obama's new Afghan strategy would pay off.
The U.S. government is fully committed to implementing the civil nuclear ideal, said Obama at the press briefing Tuesday. Moreover, he noted, the United States would offer, in accordance with the deal, the related nuclear technology and nuclear fuel to India for its civil use, but the precondition, nevertheless, is for India to separate civilian and military nuclear facilities.
"We agreed on the early and full implementation of our civil nuclear cooperation agreement," said Prime Minister Singh, and he also expressed his belief that the Obama administration would "resolve to full implement the nuclear deal as soon as possible".
By People's Daily Online and contributed PD overseas resident reporters Wen Xian and Wang Lei
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Ever since Obama assumed presidency in late January, Pakistan has occupied a position of crucial importance in the U.S.' South Asia policies, and India fears that it would be turned into a "variable factor" itself in complex geopolitical equations with merely a regional role to play. Indian strategists, however, come to realize that the U.S. hinges on Pakistan and Afghanistan instead of India in counter-terrorism in South Asia, and India's involvement in the U.S. efforts to fight terrorism is devised only to ease of the strained relations between India and Pakistan.
As a matter of fact, public opinions however deem that such a vital, high-profile reception of the Indian prime minister by Washington D.C. was intended precisely to dissolve some concerns for Indian-Pakistan relations.
The American side has referred to India as an indispensable or irreplaceable partner in the fight against terrorism in the South Asia region and or on whether President Obama's new Afghan strategy would pay off.
The U.S. government is fully committed to implementing the civil nuclear ideal, said Obama at the press briefing Tuesday. Moreover, he noted, the United States would offer, in accordance with the deal, the related nuclear technology and nuclear fuel to India for its civil use, but the precondition, nevertheless, is for India to separate civilian and military nuclear facilities.
"We agreed on the early and full implementation of our civil nuclear cooperation agreement," said Prime Minister Singh, and he also expressed his belief that the Obama administration would "resolve to full implement the nuclear deal as soon as possible".
By People's Daily Online and contributed PD overseas resident reporters Wen Xian and Wang Lei
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