India-US projects will change the world, can together ensure freedom of skies, seas: Garcetti
There’s a revolutionary transition underway in the United States to ease India’s access to critical technologies, US ambassador Eric Garcetti said Wednesday as he described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to America as a celebration of the defining partnership of this century and the unprecedented GE-HAL jet engine deal as one based on trust.
The ambassador said the visit showed how ties were accelerating at breathtaking speed and that the projects India and the US were working on together will change the world.
Garcetti also said that India and the US can build a bulwark against the “might makes right” mentality at a time countries were ignoring sovereign borders and advancing their claims through violence and destruction. ``This is not the world we want. This is not the world we need,’’ said the ambassador, without naming Russia or China.
Emphasising on security cooperation and protecting borders, he said India and the US can deploy ships together in the Pacific and Indian oceans for maritime security and employ their air forces across the Indo-Pacific to ensure freedom of the skies and the seas, and bolster the defence of like-minded countries.
Prime Minister Modi’s visit, with its focus on removing defence and hi-tech trade barriers, was seen as a resounding success but in the days that succeeded, a controversy broke out over former president Barack Obama’s remarks on the issue of human rights issues ``as we have always done, and as we do in all countries around the world" but added this was an area he approached with great humility.
Source: Times of India