The United States looks forward to enhancing strategic partnership with India and is likely to make some announcements on it 'fairly soon', a top American diplomat said on Thursday.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his confirmation hearing, Robert Blake told American Senators that Obama is committed to strengthening the existing strategic partnership between the two countries.
"President Obama has said that the United States sees India as a global power and as a very important partner for us in addressing the challenges that we will face in the 21st century," Blake said when Senator Tom Casey asked about future of Indo-US relationship under the new administration.
"So our task will be to try to strengthen the strategic partnership that exists between the United States and India, to base that on our converging values and our converging interests," he said.
Noting that the Indo-US civic nuclear deal is now a landmark agreement between the two nations, Blake told the lawmakers, "I would steer you to just point out that we think that we can cooperate on a broad range of fronts, not only bilaterally but to address some of these new challenges such as global climate change, the global trade talks and things like that."
