[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] US Plan to Make India World Power
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- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:47:40 -0800 (PST)
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US plan to make India world power
From correspondents in Washington
March 26, 2005
THE United States unveiled plans to help India become
a "major world power in the 21st century" even as it
announced moves to beef up the military of New Delhi's
nuclear rival, Pakistan.
Under the plans, Washington offered to step up a
strategic dialogue with India to boost missile defence
and other security initiatives as well as high-tech
cooperation and expanded economic and energy
cooperation.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has presented
to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the Bush
administration's outline for a "decisively broader
strategic relationship" between the world's oldest and
largest democracies, a senior US official said.
"Its goal is to help India become a major world power
in the 21st century," said the official, speaking on
condition of anonymity. "We understand fully the
implications, including military implications, of that
statement."
He did not elaborate but noted that South Asia was
critical, with China on one side, Iran and the Middle
East on the other, and a somewhat turbulent Central
Asian region to the north.
The US-India plan was announced as Washington decided
to sell an undetermined number of F-16 fighter jets to
Pakistan under a plan to prop up Pakistan on the
political, military and economic fronts.
Ms Rice discussed the US-India plan with Mr Singh
during her Asian visit earlier this month but it was
not revealed to the public.
The US proposal culminates efforts to repair relations
strained by India's May 1998 nuclear tests.
The healing process began when Bill Clinton visited
India in March 2000 near the end of his presidency, as
the first president to go there since Jimmy Carter in
1978. He eased sanctions on purchases of high-tech
equipment and broke into a market formerly served by
India's Cold War ally Russia.
President George W. Bush's administration, under a
so-called "Next Steps in Strategic Partnership",
pushed that process forward by completely lifting
sanctions, including military sales, in return for
India's support on the US-led war on terrorism.
"This year the administration made a judgment that the
'Next Steps in Strategic Partnership', though very
important, wasn't broad enough to really encompass the
kind of things we needed to do to take this
relationship where it needed to go, and so the
president and the secretary (Rice) developed the
outline for a decisively broader strategic
relationship," the US official said.
Mr Bush was inviting Prime Minister Singh to visit him
in July in Washington and the US leader would also
like to travel to South Asia later this year or early
next year, he said.
Those presidential meetings, he said, would "be
consolidating an enhanced dialogue" on the strategic,
energy and economic tracks with India.
The strategic dialogue will include global issues,
regional security matters, Indian defence
requirements, expanding high-tech cooperation and even
working toward US-India defence co-production, the
official said.
The United States, he said, was prepared to "respond
positively" to an Indian request for information on
American initiatives to sell New Delhi the next
generation of multi-role combat aircraft.
"That's not just F-16s. It could be F-18s," he said.
Deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said US
corporations were now "free to talk to India" about
whatever aircraft they could offer.
"It'll be up to India to decide what it wants. And
then negotiations, if it does decide it wants
something from us, based on its needs, would proceed
from there," Mr Ereli said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12662629%255E1702,00.html
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