Under Secretary Burns: Travel to India for Talks on 123 Agreement

Under Secretary Burns leaving the Ministry of External Affairs after meeting with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, May 31, 2007

Under Secretary Burns visited New Delhi May 31 – June 2, 2007, for meetings with Indian government and political leaders to review the new global partnership the United States and India have established across a broad range of areas. He had productive meetings with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, and other senior officials.

The American and Indian delegations had useful discussions and made some progress on the civil nuclear agreement. While there has been good cooperation, more work remains to be done to complete arrangements that will permit a civil-nuclear agreement to be finalized between the United States and India.”

We look forward to a final agreement as it is indisputably in the interest of both governments.

Remarks by Under Secretary Burns
--05/31/07  Statement Before Meeting With Indian Foreign Secretary
--05/23/07 "A Future Unbound”: U.S.-India Relations