New Delhi [India], January 7 (ANI): US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan known as on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and in addition met his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval with the visiting chief asserting United States efforts to finalize vital steps to delist Indian nuclear entities, which is able to promote civil nuclear cooperation and resilient clear power provide chains.
PM Modi and Jake Sullivan positively assessed the numerous development within the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership during the last 4 years, particularly in the important thing areas of know-how, defence, area, civil nuclear, clear power, semiconductors, and AI.
Recalling his numerous conferences with President Biden, together with throughout his go to to the US in September 2024 for the Quad Leaders’ Summit, the PM appreciated President Biden’s contributions in the direction of strengthening of the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, which leaves an everlasting legacy, Ministry of External Affairs mentioned in a launch.
PM Modi deeply appreciated a letter from President Biden handed over to him by NSA Sullivan.
The Prime Minister reaffirmed his dedication to proceed to deepen shut cooperation between the 2 democracies for the advantage of the folks of the 2 nations and for the worldwide good.
PM Modi conveyed his greatest needs to President Biden and the First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.
Sullivan spoke earlier within the day at an occasion at IIT Delhi and mentioned his go to to India is probably going the final journey abroad that he’ll lead as NSA and he can not consider a greater technique to finish his tenure within the White House.
Sullivan mentioned the United States is finalizing the mandatory steps to take away long-standing laws which have prevented civil nuclear cooperation between India’s main nuclear entities and US Companies.
“Although former President Bush and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh laid out a vision of civil nuclear cooperation nearly 20 years ago, we have yet to fully realize it. But as we work to build clean energy technologies to enable growth in artificial intelligence, and to help US and Indian energy companies unlock their innovation potential, the Biden administration has determined that it is past time to take the next major step in cementing this partnership,” he mentioned.
“So today I can announce that the United States is now finalizing the necessary steps to remove long-standing regulations that have prevented civil nuclear cooperation between India’s leading nuclear entities and US Companies. The formal paperwork will be done soon but this will be an opportunity to turn the page on some of the frictions of the past and create opportunities for entities that have been on restricted lists in the United States to come off those lists and enter into deep collaboration with the United States, with our private sector, scientists and technologists to move civil nuclear cooperation forward together,” he added.
He expressed optimism that the technological cooperation between the United States and India will get strengthened within the coming years.
“This is likely the last trip overseas that I will lead as NSA and I cannot think of a better way to end my tenure in the White House, visiting India on my final overseas trip to mark the advances that we have made together over the past four years. This is a shared and historic achievement…I have every reason to believe that within the next decade, we will see American and Indian firms working together to build the next generation of semiconductor technologies, American and Indian astronauts conducting cutting-edge research and space exploration together,” he mentioned.
In their assembly, Doval and Sullivan reviewed progress of their high-level dialogue together with in numerous fields similar to defence, cyber and maritime safety.
According to a joint press launch after assembly of the 2 NSAs, Sullivan briefed the Indian facet on the updates introduced out by the Biden administration to US missile export management insurance policies underneath the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) that may increase US industrial area cooperation with India.
“Reflecting the progress the United States and India have made–and will continue to make–as strategic partners and countries with a shared commitment to peaceful nuclear cooperation, NSA Sullivan announced US efforts to finalize necessary steps to delist Indian nuclear entities, which will promote civil nuclear cooperation and resilient clean energy supply chains,” Ministry of External Affairs mentioned in a launch.
The launch mentioned that the 2 NSAs have engaged repeatedly in a high-level dialogue via in depth discussions on a broad bilateral, regional and international agenda.
“Following the launch of the India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) by Prime Minister Modi and President Joseph Biden on the sidelines of the Quad Summit in Tokyo on May 24, 2022, the two NSAs have driven concrete initiatives between the two countries across a range of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Semiconductors, Telecommunications, Defence and Space,” the discharge mentioned.
“The current visit gave them the opportunity to review ongoing progress in their high-level dialogue, including in diverse fields such as defence, cyber and maritime security,” it added.
In his remarks on the occasion at IIT Delhi, US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti mentioned the ties between the United States and India have been strengthened not simply as a result of work of the 2 governments however folks, establishments, thinkers and researchers.
He additionally paid tributes to US President Jimmy Carter who handed away final month.
“We will mark the life of a great statesman who died at the age of 100 years. A great American president, but also a great human being who came here at a low point in the United States and India relations and sought to lay down a foundation to reclaim the friendship,” he mentioned.
He recalled that the US had pressed for India’s independence. “We advocated even against our close ally, Great Britain for the independence of the Indian people,” he mentioned.
He additionally spoke of sturdy bilateral ties because the Biden administration completes its time period.
“The completion of a chapter as a new one begins, the summary of the work that has happened not just between two governments, between two national security advisors, a President and a Prime Minister, but the peoples, the institutions, the thinkers, the researchers, the investors, the builders, the doers, those folks that come together to imagine a world that is not yet, but that when we close our eyes we hope maybe,” he mentioned. (ANI)