On his last trip to India as the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan said that steps are being taken to finalize full-scale civil nuclear cooperation, which Manmohan Singh envisioned nearly twenty years ago.
On Sunday, outgoing US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who is on a two-day India visit, said that Washington has initiated steps to advance full-scale civil nuclear cooperation with New Delhi.
Delivering his address at IIT-Delhi, Sullivan said it has been two decades since former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed the Civil Nuclear Deal with then-US President George Bush. Still, the two countries have yet to realize their cooperation fully.
Today, I am pleased to report that the United States is finally completing all of the necessary steps to lift decades-old regulations that have long blocked civil nuclear cooperation between India’s leading nuclear entities and American companies,” he said.
The US NSA also added that formal paperwork to finalize these changes will be completed shortly, which marks a new chapter in the US-India partnership.
“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.
In his address, Sullivan also said that India-US collaboration is crucial for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific. “We are deeply invested in our relationship with India,” he said.
