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| Obama wants India’s help in Af-Pak |
| Obama wants India’s help in Af-Pak
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 28-April-2009
3:42:40 AM |
| As President Barack Obama completes his first 100 days in office this week, his top aide on Tuesday said the recent actions by the US indicates that it wants to work closely with India as a partner in addressing the "increasingly dire" situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Karl F Inderfurth, a Democrat and South Asian expert, said there are "encouraging signs" to show that Obama Administration is keen to build on the foundation laid by his predecessors Bill Clinton and George W Bush and take the Indo-US relationship to the next level.
"The meeting between Obama and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the London G-20 Summit early this month was an important one," Indefurth, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs during Bill Clinton's regime, said in an interview.
"It (the meeting) demonstrated that the United States fully recognises the role India plays on the world economic scene," he said.
The former diplomat, who was a foreign policy adviser on South Asia to Obama during his campaign, said the meetings Richard Holbrooke, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has had with Indian officials indicates "that the US wants to work closely with India as a partner in addressing what is an increasingly dire situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Inderfurth said the April 2 meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was an "indication that there is going to be close cooperation between United States and India to address the global crisis
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