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Indian Government Is Going To Be America's 'Great Ally': Paul Ryan

Darpan News Desk IANS, 11 Jun, 2016 01:31 PM
    The Indian government is going to be America's "great ally" and there is a need to nurture this relationship, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan has said.
     
    In a major foreign policy speech in Washington in which he was highly critical of President Barack Obama's policies, the US-India relationship was the only aspect of it which was appreciated by Mr Ryan.
     
    "I think you need, and in particular, specifically under Modi's leadership, and he and I have discussed this at great length yesterday, (US-India) have a great potential for the future particularly with the seas, in the Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, making sure that we help police the global commons and international order, namely China building, you know, runways on islands in contested areas," Mr Ryan said.
     
    He said this in the speech at the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a joint meeting of the US Congress at his invitation.
     
    PM Modi was the first foreign leader to be invited to address a joint sitting of the Congress under Mr Ryan's speakership.
     
    On Wednesday, PM Modi and Mr Ryan had a one-on-one interaction before the Prime Minister's address. Mr Ryan also hosted a lunch for the visiting leader.
     
     
    A day later, Mr Ryan was all in praise for PM Modi. "I think the Indian (government), the new Indian government, is going to be a great ally of ours and we have better security cooperation with them. That's one thing that we need to nurture and grow," Mr Ryan told the audience at the Council on Foreign Relations, a top American think tank.
     
    "And those of us who are fans of Modi, you know, he's a conservative who wants, who embraces free enterprise. He's bringing needed reform to the country," Mr Ryan said, according to the remarks released by his office.
     
    "That's the kind of an alliance that we need to forge and build upon. That stands in stark contrast, I would argue, to the Obama foreign policy of the last eight years where we have neglected our allies and we have basically rewarded our enemies, our adversaries," said the Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
     
    Except for his comments on India, Mr Ryan slammed Obama's foreign policy.
     
    "We know that this new Obama foreign policy concept, leading from behind, can now be declared an unambiguous failure. It is making us unprepared. It is reducing our military capability and strength," he alleged.

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