Thursday 3 June 2010


STATE DEPARTMENT HOSTING HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS WITH INDIA

Karen DeYoung

The Washington Post, June 3, 2010

The Obama administration is hosting a high-level dialogue this week with India, part of an ongoing effort to convince the South Asian behemoth that Washington cares about more than counterterrorism in the region and supports India's claim to global power.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will head a high-level delegation at a State Department meeting Thursday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, national security adviser James L. Jones and other senior officials.

The meeting follows similar "strategic dialogue" sessions with Afghanistan last month and Pakistan in March, and it will bring together Cabinet officials from across the government to meet with their counterparts. But while the Afghan war and regional security issues are on the agenda, the administration has emphasized that the meeting is more akin to the "whole of government" sessions Clinton held this spring in China and Brazil.

The White House has put considerable effort into wooing India, which it sees as a potentially major international trade and security partner. President Obama held his first state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November and plans to visit India in the fall.

In his National Security Strategy released last week, Obama said the U.S.-India alliance will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century, along with U.S. ties with other "emerging powers." In a symbolic gesture not extended to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the president will go to the State Department on Thursday for a reception Clinton will host for the Indian delegation.

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