Washington: Defense trade that develops between India and the US is one of the big success stories of bilateral relations, the nomination of US President Joe Biden for the upcoming envoy to New Delhi has told parliamentarians.
Eric Michael Garcetti, 50, currently serves as Mayor of Los Angeles and is a personal belief of Biden.
Garcetti, during the hearing confirmation as US ambassador to India, said that he fully supports land law, the implementation of Caatsa and part of it is the provision of neglect.
He responded to the question of enforcing Caatsa sanctions in India now that New Delhi has begun to accept sending the S-400 missile system from Russia.
I do not want to prejudice the secretary’s decision on sanctions or neglect.
And I want to tell the chairman, members of the rank (and) of all members (from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee).
I fully support land law, implementation of Caatsa as a law here and part of it is the provision of neglect, “said Garcetti.
Major Los Angeles said, if confirmed, he would advocate a continuous diversification of the Indian weapons system, the threat to the US weapons system itself.” If Diversification does not occur because we have to protect our data and our system, “he said, adding that he would work towards the growth of the US Main Defense Partnership.” I think it is one of the big success stories in the past few decades from Zero to USD 20 billion In procurement, the intelligence division we have, interoperability, exercise, maritime work we do, “he said.
India is the only main defense partner appointed from the United States.
After concluding four agreements that enable the main defense since 2016, the United States and India has made significant progress as MITR A main defense and America hopes to further improve sharing information, bilateral and multilateral exercises, maritime security cooperation, official exchanges, and logistical cooperation.
Responding to questions relating to human rights in India, Garcetti assured parliamentarians that he personally would speak with various stakeholders in India about this issue.
“I will not only bring it, but it won’t be something in the end as an obligation.
This will be the core part of what I will involve my Indian colleagues has been confirmed,” he said.
“There is no question that Indian US relations must be supported by our shared commitment to democracy, human rights and civil society …
if confirmed, I will actively increase this problem.
I will raise them with humility.
This is a two-way road about This, but I intend to be directly involved with civil society, “he said.
“There are groups that actively struggle for human rights on land in India who will get direct involvement from me.
We know that complicated democracy and we can see our own and in India, but this is the foundation of our shared values,” said Garcetti.
Growing trading defense one of the big success stories from the Indian-US tie: Garcetti
