WASHINGTON: India sees itself as a clean security provider in the strategic Indian Ocean region where it helps build economic capabilities and improve maritime security for her friends and partners, India’s top diplomats in the US, in front of the year Quad Summit to be held by the President US Joe Biden.
In an event for the Endowmen Carnegie event for international peace to launch the Indian Ocean initiative here, the Indian Ambassador to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu said on Tuesday that the Indian Ocean was a bridge with direct countries, and expanded.
His statement came a few days before the first quad in-person summit on September 24 in Washington which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Premier Yoshihide Suga.
The four leaders will discuss promoting indo-Pacific which is free and open, overcoming the climate crisis and deepening their bonds and advancing practical collaboration in fields such as Covid-19, White Press Secretary Jen PSAKI said on Monday.
“The challenges we face today, as nations, are too complicated, to be handled alone.
This interdependence interdependence, for me, is not a sign of weakness; but the source of strength.
It is the friendship we value.; The trust we build; connectivity which we craft that has a potential solution for many urgent problems that face the world today, “Sandhu said.” The sea that separates us, is also a ocean that connects us.
India sees itself as a clean security provider in the Indian Ocean region.
We have also become respondents First in the operation ha / dr in the region.
Is that flooding in Sri Lanka, or scarcity of water in the Maldives, we have responded, on a scale and speed, and it is also within a few hours of the crisis, “he said.
The launch of the carnegie will come at the time of the term “indo-Pacific” is, perhaps, the more the terms that are most often used in global strategic lexicons, the ambassador said.
“Our relationship with countries in the Indian Ocean is strong; and we also Help build economic capabilities; and improve maritime security, for our friends and partners.
During Covid-19, we send medical teams and supply equipment to the Indian Samudra Island countries from Maldives, Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, on Between other countries in the Indian Ocean region, “he said.
Sandhu said that India said the Indo-Pacific vision was articulated in the keynote address of the prime minister to the Shangri-La dialogue in June 2018.
“We see Indo-Pacific, as a free, open area, which includes all, in joint pursuits.
And prosperity .
ASEAN centrality, is a key element of the Indo-Pacific.
There is convergence on this, with our partners, whether it is under Quad; or trilateral with France and Australia, “he said.
The US has encouraged a broader role by India in the Indo-Pacific region which is very important strategically.
India, the US and some other world powers have talked about the need to ensure free, open and developed Indo Pacific in the background of China’s increasing military maneuvers in the region.
China claims almost all the southern South China Sea, although Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claimed that part.
Beijing has built artificial islands and military installations in the South China Sea.