US moving towards full civil nuclear cooperation with India: Jake Sullivan
US moving towards full civil nuclear cooperation with India: Jake Sullivan US moving towards full civil nuclear cooperation with India: Jake Sullivan
The outgoing US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, who is on a two-day India visit, on Sunday said that Washington has initiated steps to advance full-scale civil nuclear cooperation with New Delhi.
In his address at the IIT-Delhi, Sullivan said it had been two decades since former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed the Civil Nuclear Deal with then-US President George Bush, but the two countries are yet to fully realise the cooperation.
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“Today, I can announce that the United States is now finalising the necessary steps to remove long-standing regulations that have prevented civil nuclear cooperation between India’s leading nuclear entities and US companies,” he said.
The US NSA also said that the formal paperwork to finalise these changes would be completed soon, marking a new chapter in the US-India partnership.
“The formal paperwork will be done soon, but this will be an opportunity to turn the page on some of the frictions of the past and create opportunities for entities that have been on restricted lists in the United States to come off those lists and enter into deep collaboration with the United States, with our private sector, scientists and technologists to move civil nuclear cooperation forward together,” he added.
Further in his address, Sullivan said that India-US collaboration is crucial for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific. “We are deeply invested in our relationship with India,” he said.
The outgoing White House official also said that US-India relations have fundamentally reached new level of cooperation in the last four years.
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