03-16-2006, 10:55 PM
<!--emo&:ind--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/india.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='india.gif' /><!--endemo--> India ready to shoulder global role: US report
Chidanand Rajghatta
[ Thursday, March 16, 2006 08:42:08 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
WASHINGTON: India is now poised to shoulder global obligations in cooperation with the United States "in a way befitting a major power," the Bush administration said on Thursday in a sweeping overview of American strategic interests worldwide.
The administrationâs National Security Strategy document for 2006 built on its 2002 report which first identified India as a "growing world power with which we have common strategic interest."
In effect, the latest report said New Delhi has arrived and spoke more glowingly about India than any other country.
While the 2002 report spoke about residual differences over development of Indiaâs nuclear and missile programme, the new report released Thursday referred only to the "bold agreement" of July 2005, calling it a "a roadmap to realize the meaningful cooperation that had eluded our two nations for decades."
1|2|3|4|Next
Chidanand Rajghatta
[ Thursday, March 16, 2006 08:42:08 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
WASHINGTON: India is now poised to shoulder global obligations in cooperation with the United States "in a way befitting a major power," the Bush administration said on Thursday in a sweeping overview of American strategic interests worldwide.
The administrationâs National Security Strategy document for 2006 built on its 2002 report which first identified India as a "growing world power with which we have common strategic interest."
In effect, the latest report said New Delhi has arrived and spoke more glowingly about India than any other country.
While the 2002 report spoke about residual differences over development of Indiaâs nuclear and missile programme, the new report released Thursday referred only to the "bold agreement" of July 2005, calling it a "a roadmap to realize the meaningful cooperation that had eluded our two nations for decades."
1|2|3|4|Next