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“India's economical translation since 2014 has been the anchor constituent of its expanding engagement with the U.S.,” Indian envoy to the U.S. Vinay Mohan Kwatra said successful Washington.
Addressing the Capitol Hill Summit 2026 organised by the U.S.-India Friendship Council (USIFC) successful Washington connected Monday (May 18, 2026), Mr. Kwatra said the transition of the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act has unlocked opportunities for backstage assemblage collaboration successful the civilian atomic powerfulness domain.
"One of the drivers, I indispensable constituent out, is simply a acceptable of transformational journeys that are presently taking spot successful India," helium said, addressing the league that was attended by U.S. lawmakers, including Ro Khanna, Deborah Ross, Tim Moore and Senator Steve Daines.
Mr. Kwatra said India and the U.S. had acceptable a people to summation bilateral commercialized from astir $220 cardinal annually to $500 cardinal by 2030.
He said defence and information practice was 1 of the fastest-growing pillars of the India-U.S. partnership, and New Delhi was the largest idiosyncratic of immoderate American platforms extracurricular the U.S.
“Today, India is the largest idiosyncratic of a mates of American platforms extracurricular the U.S. But this is besides covered by what we are capable to bash unneurotic astatine an operational level astatine the level of assorted commands successful presumption of addressing the shared challenges that we look successful the defence and information space,” the envoy said.
“We are earthy partners not due to the fact that of geography oregon compulsions of geography, but due to the fact that of our shared values,” helium said, citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s code to the U.S. Congress successful 2023.
Mr. Kwatra said each U.S. medication implicit the past 2 decades had built upon the achievements of its predecessor successful strengthening ties with India. “If you look astatine the thread of the narration implicit the erstwhile decades and done the successive administrations, you volition find that each medication has tried, sought and successfully built connected the achievements of the erstwhile administration,” helium said.
