Obama bids fond farewell to outgoing India PM
President conveys his appreciation
for Manmohan Singh’s friendship
President Pranab Mukherjee bids
Manmohan Singh farewell in New Delhi.
(EPA)
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
Published — Saturday 17 May 2014
WASHINGTON: US President Barack
Obama called India’s
outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
to convey “gratitude” for “his critical role” in deepening ties between the two
allies.
India is a key part of Obama’s policy of pivoting US power to Asia.
On his 2010 visit, Obama called the budding strategic relationship between the
world’s two largest democracies “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st
century.”
The US
president is now courting Singh’s successor, Narendra Modi, whose Bharatiya
Janata Party’s won a crushing election victory and who was previously shunned
by Washington.
But Obama reached out to Singh
Saturday, expressing “his gratitude for Dr. Singh’s tenure as Prime Minister
and his critical role in transforming and deepening the US-India strategic partnership and our cooperation on global
challenges.
“The president conveyed his
appreciation for Dr. Singh’s friendship, noting that he looked forward to
further expanding the strong relationship between the US and India with Prime Minister-Elect
Narendra Modi,” a White House statement said.
Diplomatic relations between Washington and New Delhi
have drifted recently, antagonized by the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York who was
strip-searched over claims she mistreated a domestic servant.
Final election results in India showed
that the Bharatiya Janata Party, in opposition since 2004, had won the first
outright majority by one party in parliament since the Congress party in 1984.
Modi, the chief minister of
Gujarat, was controversially refused a visa to visit the US in 2005 over
allegations he turned a blind eye or worse to deadly riots in the western state
three years earlier.
But State Department spokeswoman
Jen Psaki said that Modi would face no problems visiting as prime minister
because he would receive a special A-1 visa as a head of government.
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh is
the prime minister of India,
and was a guest of honor at the White
House state dinner (11/24/2009).
Note: Reserve
Bank of India is the central bank of India.
Raghuram G. Rajan
is the governor of the Reserve Bank of
India, a professor at the University
of Chicago Booth School of Business, a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a senior adviser for Booz & Company.
David
J. Vitale is a council member for the University
of Chicago Booth School of Business, a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Michelle
Obama is a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs, and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
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is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and the EVP &
general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton.
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& Company was a spinoff company for Booz Allen Hamilton.
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an employee for Booz Allen Hamilton,
and leaked information about the National
Security Agency (NSA).
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Freidheim Jr. was a managing director for Booz Allen Hamilton, is an honorary life director for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the Millennium Promise,
and Refugees International.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is a
board member of the International Crisis
Group.
Thomas R.
Pickering is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a co-chair for the International
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ambassador for India,
and a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
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Frank
G. Wisner is a director at the U.S.-India
Business Council, a director emeritus at Refugees International, and was a U.S.
ambassador for India.
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to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Refugees International.
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Business Council.
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& Company, a director at the Harman
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Frank
G. Wisner is a director at the U.S.-India
Business Council, a director emeritus at Refugees International, and was a U.S.
ambassador for India.
Manmohan Singh is
the prime minister of India,
and was a guest of honor at the White
House state dinner (11/24/2009).
Reserve
Bank of India is the central bank of India.
Raghuram G. Rajan
is the governor of the Reserve Bank of
India, a professor at the University
of Chicago Booth School of Business, a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a senior adviser for Booz & Company.
David
J. Vitale is a council member for the University
of Chicago Booth School of Business, a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Michelle
Obama is a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs, and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
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