United states secretary of state Ms. Hillary Clinton’s four-day visit to India was whirlwind tour, packed with meetings with top leaders of the country and also top business personals in the industry. Mr. Obama's administration is keen to continue its relation with India, where Mr. George W Bush, former president of USA had left. But as a near war of words over climate change with Mr. Jayaram Ramesh, Indian environment and forest minister indicates, there is much ground to cover for ‘strategic partnership’ with USA.
“End – Use Monitoring Agreement” that allows the US to track arms supplied to India to ensure that they are not sold and given to third parties. Obama’s administration took major steps this week which help US defense contractors to sell sophisticated arms and nuclear technology to India, increased US – India nuclear co-operations stokes fear of escalating India’s arm’s race with Pakistan. India has finalized two sites to install Nuclear Reactors in this visit of Hillary Clinton. These parks will advance the aims of the US – India civil Nuclear Agreement, facilitate billions of dollars in US reactor exports, and create jobs in both countries, as well as generate much needed energy for the Indian people.
“Technical Safe Guard Agreement”, will enable India to launch non-commercial satellites containing US component and also set up a Science and Technology endowment fund to allow more cooperation in those fields. The agreement included the creation of a science and technology endowment fund and technical safe guard agreement for the launch of civilian satellites incorporating US components.
With “Strategic Dialogue” involving five areas of cooperation like agriculture, science and technology, trade, energy and finance, she also did confirm talks on the subjects like education, climate change, terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation. Ms. Clinton, at a news conference with External Affairs Minister Mr. S.M. Krishna, stressed that the talks are designed to inspire broad partnerships beyond the government level, bringing Americans into closer contact with one of the world’s fastest – growing economies. Ms. Clinton also told to reporters, “We do not, however, intend for this to be a dialogue between ministers or even between governments, but between our nations and our peoples, our scientists and business leaders, our civil society activists and academics, charitable foundations, farmers, educators, doctors, entrepreneurs”.
