News: 'India-US hold the key'
(PTI 17/06/2006) Washington - Cooperation between United States and India is important to the global marketplace and the relationship has the 'power to transform' the world using science and technology, a senior American official has said.
Addressing a symposium on 'India's Changing Innovation System: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation', Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman yesterday said that America had opened a 'new chapter' in its relationship with India 'that is based not just on our mutual needs but on trust'.
Recalling President George W Bush's words that the US and India 'are closer than ever before, and the partnership between our free nations has the power to transform the world', Bodman said much of that 'power' of transformation comes in the areas of science and technology.
He said that the declaration of President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to transform the relationship between the two nations in ways that support and accelerate economic growth through greater trade, investment and collaboration on technology will enhance energy security.
"It promotes the development of stable and efficient energy markets and will enhance the research and development of alternative energy sources already underway," Bodman said.
He added the US would welcome India's collaboration on the development of the proposed International Linear Collider, which would make possible new discoveries in particle physics.
"We intend the ILC to be designed, funded, managed and operated as a fully international scientific project, one I hope the Indians will join," he said.
Addressing a symposium on 'India's Changing Innovation System: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation', Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman yesterday said that America had opened a 'new chapter' in its relationship with India 'that is based not just on our mutual needs but on trust'.
Recalling President George W Bush's words that the US and India 'are closer than ever before, and the partnership between our free nations has the power to transform the world', Bodman said much of that 'power' of transformation comes in the areas of science and technology.
He said that the declaration of President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to transform the relationship between the two nations in ways that support and accelerate economic growth through greater trade, investment and collaboration on technology will enhance energy security.
"It promotes the development of stable and efficient energy markets and will enhance the research and development of alternative energy sources already underway," Bodman said.
He added the US would welcome India's collaboration on the development of the proposed International Linear Collider, which would make possible new discoveries in particle physics.
"We intend the ILC to be designed, funded, managed and operated as a fully international scientific project, one I hope the Indians will join," he said.
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