“As India looks east, its role in its immediate neighborhood obviously remains crucial. We have complementary interest on the subcontinent, and United States supports India’s leadership in encouraging the emergence of a stable democratic government in Bangladesh, easing tensions in Nepal and promoting peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Neither of us intends [US and India] to outsource South Asia policy to the other, but more often than not our policy prescriptions converge.”
William J. Burns, U.S. Department of State's Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs speaking at the CFR's General Meeting on India’s Rise and the Future of the U.S.-India Relationship on June 1, 2010.
Audio Source: Council on Foreign Relations (17:16)
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