India-USA Relations: US National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan on Monday (January 6) said that the US is finalizing the necessary steps to remove rules that are hindering civil nuclear cooperation between Indian and US companies. Is.
Sullivan made this announcement to Foreign Minister S. A few hours after separate talks with Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval.
This scheme was started in 2005
After the meeting of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with US President George W Bush in July 2005, India and America started an ambitious plan to cooperate in the field of civil nuclear energy. The India-US civil nuclear agreement was signed in 2008. This historic agreement transformed relations between the two sides and paved the way for a strategic partnership, but there was no concrete progress in the civil nuclear energy sector.
Jake Sullivan said this
Jake Sullivan, in his address at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, said, “Former President Bush and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid out a vision of civil nuclear cooperation nearly 20 years ago, but we have yet to fully realize it.” Have found.” He said that the US government has decided that the time has come to take the next big step to strengthen this partnership.
Sullivan said the US is finalizing the steps needed to remove long-standing rules that have hindered civil nuclear cooperation between India’s leading nuclear facilities and US companies.
Paperwork will be completed soon
He said, “The formal paperwork will be completed soon, but it will be an opportunity to forget some of the controversies of the past and create an opportunity for those companies which are on the US sanctions lists, to come out of those lists.” And can deepen cooperation with America.”
Sullivan also announced that the India-US commercial and civil space partnership is about to begin with the signing of some documents by President Joe Biden. He said that this step will promote cooperation in the areas of missile technology.