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Washington: A high-level Congressional delegation, led by Senator Mark Warner, will be visiting India on Saturday, during which it will discuss a range of bilateral issues, including business, trade and defence.

The five-member delegation also includes Senators Michael Bennet and Tom Udall; and Representatives Joseph Crowley and Cedric Richmond.

While Warner is co-chair of the Senate India Caucus, Crowley is co-chair of the Congressional India Caucus in the House of Representatives.

The delegation, during their stay from January 7 to January 14, will meet with top government and business leaders in New Delhi, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Kolkata, exploring opportunities to expand business, trade, defense and cultural relationships between the two countries.

The highlights of the trip include a visit to a National Basketball Association-sponsored camp for the young in New Delhi, and the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Virginia Community College System and the Wadhwani Foundation, a leading nonprofit foundation, to expand training curriculum for skilled trades within India, said a statement issued by the office of Senator Warner.

"The delegation will also attend the Confederation of Indian Industry's Partnership Summit in Hyderabad, and the congressional delegation will be the first to visit the state of West Bengal since the Communist Party was defeated after 34 years of party rule there," it said.

Through the week, the delegation will also learn more about education, child health, food safety and water purification efforts in the poorer regions of India, the statement said.

In addition, the delegation has scheduled dozens of meetings with top government officials and leading executives of India's security, energy, biotech and IT industries to explore export and investment opportunities between the two nations, the statement said.

"The United States and India share a common democracy, a common language and a broad understanding of business," Warner said.

"I believe we have reached a point where it is time for the US-India relationship to advance from a longtime friendship to a full partnership, and I look forward to identifying and pursuing additional opportunities for our two nations to work more closely together."

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, India's current high-growth rate will result in a major economic transformation over the next two decades.

Income levels are forecast to almost triple, and India will climb from its position today as the twelfth largest consumer market to become the world's fifth-largest consumer market by 2025, the statement said.

At the same time, India's middle class is forecast to expand by more than ten times from its current size of 50 million people to more than 580 million people, it added.
 
considering what relations were like in the 70s and for that matter even the 90s . its quiet a turnaround.:)
 
considering what relations were like in the 70s and for that matter even the 90s . its quiet a turnaround.:)



You know everyone gives Bush credit for improving Indo-US ties but it all started with Clinton who was pro-India and took the first steps to move away from the old cold war mentality.
 
You know everyone gives Bush credit for improving Indo-US ties but it all started with Clinton who was pro-India and took the first steps to move away from the old cold war mentality.

We seriously owe thanks to Clinton, Bush Junior, AB Bajpai and many diplomats...

Worth to read The Vajpayee government improved India's ties with the People's Republic of China, boosting trade and seeking the resolution of territorial disputes through dialogue. India also established strategic and military cooperation with Israel, with both nations establishing cooperation in fighting terrorism. In 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first American president to visit India since Jimmy Carter. The U.S. and India ended the Cold War-era distant relationship and expanded trade and cooperation on strategic issues. After the 11 September 2001 attacks, India provided much strategic assistance to the U.S. in its war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.



Pakistan lost the opportunity due to it's looser generals. In 1999, Vajpayee personally travelled to Pakistan on the inaugural Delhi-Lahore Bus, which established a regular road link between the two countries for the first time since 1947. Vajpayee and the then-Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued the Lahore Declaration, which committed the two nations to resolve bilateral disputes through dialogue and concurrently boost trade. However, the Lahore summit's success was diminished by the outbreak of the Kargil War just months later.
 
Vajpayee in my book was a good PM and a man of peace who wanted to resolve the Kashmir issue with Pakistan but we all know what happened after his Lahore trip.
 
You know everyone gives Bush credit for improving Indo-US ties but it all started with Clinton who was pro-India and took the first steps to move away from the old cold war mentality.

Not quite true. Clinton's administration put sanctions on India after the nuclear test & before that, never had India on the radar. Only with Strobe Talbott & Jashwant's Singh's talk did the relationship start to come into focus. Ironically, it was the Kargil war that helped build a strong foundation to U.S.- India ties but by that time, Clinton was pretty much a lame duck President. While Clinton always showed great personal warmth towards India, the relationship itself never did reach anywhere near the closeness that it did during the Presidency of George Bush nor did Clinton ever show an overriding desire to move the relationship forward in the same manner of George Bush.
 
Not quite true. Clinton's administration put sanctions on India after the nuclear test & before that, never had India on the radar. Only with Strobe Talbott & Jashwant's Singh's talk did the relationship start to come into focus. Ironically, it was the Kargil war that helped build a strong foundation to U.S.- India ties but by that time, Clinton was pretty much a lame duck President. While Clinton always showed great personal warmth towards India, the relationship itself never did reach anywhere near the closeness that it did during the Presidency of George Bush nor did Clinton ever show an overriding desire to move the relationship forward in the same manner of George Bush.



Sanctions were to be expected it was pre 9/11 and India was just starting to emerge and yes I agree with your point about Kargil but the world was a whole lot diffrent prior to 9/11.

India during the Clinton years was not in the same economic or military level as that during the Bush tenure, one must remember it was the threat of China and Pakistan that really was the game changer. That happened was after 9/11 when sanctions were lifted ironically for Pakistan too as they came on board on the war on terror.
 

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