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New Delhi:The main barrier to India-US ties revolves around concerns about technology, highlighting the centrality of iCET (India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies) to the relationship between Washington D.C. and New Delhi, said Seth Center Tuesday, while speaking at the Global Technology Summit organised by Indias Ministry of External Affairs and Carnegie India...
The extraordinarily important partnership that the US and India have across a whole range of issuesand then I think about the achievements or barriers to achieving those shared partnership objectives and recognise very quickly that technology is the fulcrum of the issues we are concerned about, explained Center to moderator Arun K..
And our National Security Advisors under the leadership of our Prime Minister and President recognised very quickly that if you wanted to lock in an enduring partnershipyou have to deepen the relationship in these technology areas...
The iCET review between the two deputy NSAs is the first publicly announced engagement between Washington D.C. and New Delhi after last weeksindictmentof an Indian national in an alleged assassination plot adding credence to Centers emphasis on the centrality of technology to India-US ties...
The relationship between the suite of technology concerns that we have in the world, the role of US-India relationship are now inseparablewe now believe that technology is the enduring component, really the underpinning in many ways of our [US-India] relationship and needs to be institutionalised, Center said...
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