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March 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Malawi: Diplomacy: National Security: COS - India: Cybernoon: Robert Blackwill calls for greaterco-operation between India & US
RPCV Robert Blackwill calls for greater co-operation between India & US
RPCV Robert Blackwill calls for greater co-operation between India & US
Robert Blackwill calls for greater co-operation between India and US
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 14:23:23 IST
WASHINGTON (PTI): Stating that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit boosted Indo-US ties, former ambassador to India Robert Blackwill has said the US should support India's claim for permanent membership of the UN Security Council and enhance cooperation in areas of civil nuclear and space technology to further cement bilateral ties.
Calling for "fundamental policy changes" by both the countries, the former deputy national security said US should support Indian membership at G-8 and its integration into the evolving global nonproliferation regime as a friendly nuclear weapons state. "Gone are the days when the State Department viewed India myopically through the lens of India's long troubled relationship with Pakistan. Washington has also stopped playing nagging regarding India's nuclear weapons programme, Blackwill said. He also asked India to engage in a major way to help build a civil society in Iraq, persuade Iran "to give up its insistence on a full fuel cycle and Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. (This is more important than current US --India differences over a gas pipeline to India from Iran which may well never be built)."
India should continue its efforts to normalize relations with Pakistan and should work ever more closely with the US to deal with regional instability emanating from Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It should be a much more cooperative partner with Washington in the Doha trade round. Never in the history of the US-India relationship has the State Department's seventh floor had three policy-makers with a global orientation toward India, Blackwill said naming Rice, Deputy Secretary Robert Zoellick and Counsellor Philip Zelikow.Referring to External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh's scheduled talks in Washington next month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's call at the White House in July, and President George W. Bush's visit to India at the end of this year or early 2006, he said the US should integrate India into the evolving global nonproliferation regime as a friendly nuclear weapons state.
"We should end constraints on assistance to and cooperation with India's civil nuclear industry and high-tech trade, changing laws and policy when necessary. "The US should sell India civil nuclear reactors, both to reduce its demand for Persian Gulf energy and to ease the environmental impact of India's vibrant economic growth," he said the country should enter into a vigorous long-term programme of space cooperation with India. "Why should the US want to check India's missile capability in ways that could lead to China's permanent nuclear dominance over democratic India?" he asked referring to the US fears on transfer of technology. Blackwill also stressed on greater military cooperation with India. "Finally, we should initiate an intense and secret discussion with India regarding the future of Pakistan,including contingency planning," Blackwill said.
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