Asserting that New Delhi is blessed with the fastest growing major market in Asia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said India will be globes most populous nation with a rising middle class and a huge reservoir of entrepreneurial talent by 2030.
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“We have to work cooperatively and in good faith that terrorists have no place to run, no place to hide and no place to plan and prepare the future”, he said. “They must work with us to help clear sanctuary of bad actors who are affecting not only India- Pakistan relationship but also our ability to achieve peace and stability in Afghanistan”, Kerry said.
The US Secretary of State, on his part, said both sides were committed to the joint cyber framework.
Kerry said one must not allow terrorists to succeed and it was important to strike at the root cause.
“There is a way but it is complicated (India’s UNSC bid)”.
In a joint press interaction with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi after the bilateral Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, Kerry said the trilateral talks would be held to “reaffirm our mutual roles as central players on behalf of security and progress in the region”. “We support Modi’s plan of increasing share of renewable power source”.
Kerry, who is on a three-day-visit to India, was supposed to visit the sites yesterday itself but it was postponed.
“We have been urging Pakistan to crack down on terror camps”.
India’s economy will only be able to maintain its impressive growth if its bureaucracy ceases to be “an expert in setting up roadblocks”, Kerry said.
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One research scholar even asked what United States wants India to do better, to which Kerry diplomatically said that while India and USA have a great relationship, it wished that India would find an alternative to coal.
