The departing US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, currently on a two-day trip to India, stated on Sunday that Washington has begun actions to promote comprehensive civil nuclear collaboration with New Delhi.
During his speech at IIT-Delhi, Sullivan remarked that it has been twenty years since former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finalized the Civil Nuclear Deal with then-US President George Bush, yet the full potential of collaboration between the two nations has not been achieved.
“Today, I can announce that the United States is now finalising the necessary steps to remove long-standing regulations that have prevented civil nuclear cooperation between India’s leading nuclear entities and US companies,” he said.
The US NSA also stated that the official documentation to finalize these modifications would be finished shortly, signifying a new phase in the US-India collaboration.
“The formal paperwork will be done soon, but this will be an opportunity to turn the page on some of the frictions of the past and create opportunities for entities that have been on restricted lists in the United States to come off those lists and enter into deep collaboration with the United States, with our private sector, scientists and technologists to move civil nuclear cooperation forward together,” he added.
The departing White House representative stated that US-India relations have significantly advanced to a new level of collaboration over the past four years.
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Sullivan is visiting India two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States.
Before his visit to New Delhi, the White House announced that Jake Sullivan will go to India on January 5 and 6 for concluding discussions with his counterpart Ajit K Doval and other senior government officials regarding various bilateral, regional, and global matters, and to finalize several ongoing initiatives.
