'Barriers to Indo-US strategic cooperation should be removed'

Washington, June 29: Removing of barriers to strategic cooperation, particularly in the area of technology development, and expansion of commerical ties between India and US have been suggested in a joint report by an Indian and American thinktanks.

Washington, June 29: Removing of barriers to strategic cooperation, particularly in the area of technology development, and expansion of commerical ties between India and US have been suggested in a joint report by an Indian and American thinktanks.
The report by the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Observer Research Foundation, Delhi, released at Brookings Institution by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, recommends a series of steps to further boost Indo-US cooperation in a number of fields.

Noting that the stereotypical images of India as a land of maharajas, palaces, elephants against a background of grinding poverty are giving way to a country associated with technological innovation, the task force co-chaired by former US Ambassador to India Richard Celeste and former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Abid Hussain said at American business conferences, India is often referred to in the same breath as
China.

Strategic differences will certainly occur between India and the US, says the report, but strengthened economic and cultural ties will enable both nations to ride over those differences with lesser bumps.

The recommendations of the task force are aimed at removing barriers to strategic cooperation, particularly in the area of technology development; expanding commerce between India and the US; promoting cooperation in science and technology; strengthening cooperation in health care and education.

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