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1. The President of a United States of America, Barack Obama, accompanied by First Lady Michelle Obama, is visiting India from 25-27 Jan 2015. The President of India and a Prime Minister of India welcomed a U.S. President as a Chief Guest during India’s 66th Republic Day celebrations, a initial U.S. President to beauty this ancestral event.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama assessed a endless common vital and tellurian partnership between their twin countries and affianced to continue to raise team-work opposite a spectrum of tellurian try to improved their citizens’ lives and that of a tellurian community.
3. Noting that a multifaceted partnership between a United States and India is secure in common values of democracy and clever mercantile and people-to-people ties, President Obama and Prime Minister Modi towering a common attribute by their publicity of a new India-U.S. Delhi Declaration of Friendship, that builds on their 30 Sep Vision Statement by articulating discernible beliefs to beam ongoing efforts to allege mutual prosperity, a purify and healthy environment, incomparable mercantile cooperation, informal peace, certainty and fortitude for a incomparable advantage of humankind.
4. Recognizing a vicious purpose that both countries play in compelling peace, prosperity, fortitude and certainty in a Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region, and observant that India’s ‘Act East Policy’ and a United States’ rebalance to Asia produce opportunities for India, a United States, and other Asia-Pacific countries to work closely to strengthen informal ties, a Leaders announced a Joint Strategic Vision to beam their rendezvous in a region.
5. The Prime Minister and a President concurred and voiced compensation during a qualitative reinvigoration of vital ties and a appetite of petrify interactions given a Prime Minister’s revisit to Washington in Sep 2014. They appreciated a focused transformation and accomplishments by both sides on a decisions taken during a Summit in Sep and in this regard, they welcomed:
The 30 Sep 2014 signing of an implementing agreement between a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to control a corner NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission.
The convening of a Defence Policy Group and a subgroups on 28-29 Oct 2014 to pursue stronger and stretched common counterclaim cooperation.
India’s ongoing facilitation of U.S. Department of Defense charitable missions in India, including a idea in Oct and Nov 2014, to redeem a stays of depressed U.S. soldiers who served in World War II.
The signing of a India-U.S. Statement of Guiding Principles on Triangular Cooperation for Global Development on 3 Nov 2014, in avail of common efforts to allege tolerable enlargement in team-work with partner countries around a world.
The breakthrough between India and a United States on issues relating to a doing of a Bali Ministerial Decisions per open stockholding for food certainty purposes, a WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, and post Bali work.
Convening of a U.S.-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation in New Delhi on 17 Nov 2014 to review, sell views, and allege team-work in opposite areas of scholarship and record and inspire rendezvous in techno-entrepreneurship and origination partnership for mutual benefit.
Convening of a India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue in New Delhi on 17 Nov 2014 to serve common team-work in this field, strengthen partnerships between Indian and U.S. universities and village colleges, urge tyro and academician mobility, and foster imagination collaboration.
The signing of a MoU on 18 Nov 2014 between Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. and a Export-Import Bank of a United States, that would make permitted adult to $1 billion in financing to foster stretched team-work and raise U.S. private zone investment in Indian purify appetite projects.
Successful hosting of a common India-U.S. Technology Summit on 18-19 Nov 2014 with a U.S. as a partner republic for a initial time.
Convening of a High Technology Cooperation Group on 20-21 Nov 2014 to figure a mild bulletin on high record goods, including trade control-related trade in homeland certainty technologies, high record production apparatus including appurtenance tools, counterclaim trade, and fostering partnership in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and health-related information technology.
Convening of a Smart Cities Conclave on 22 Nov 2014 orderly by a U.S.-India Business Council in team-work with a Ministry of Urban Development and a Mayors and Commissioners of Ajmer (Rajasthan), Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) and Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and a preference by a Government of India to consecrate a high-level cabinet for any of a 3 Smart Cities comprising opposite departments of a Central Government, a state governments, internal governments, and member of a U.S. industry.
Signing of 3 MoUs between a State Governments of Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan and a U.S. Trade and Development Agency on 25 Jan 2015 to arise Vishakhapatnam, Allahabad, and Ajmer as Smart Cities with a appearance of U.S. industry, in avail of a joining done by a Leaders in Sep 2014.
The convening of a Trade Policy Forum during a Ministerial turn on 24-25 Nov 2014, in that India and a United States resolved to work towards solution blurb impediments in both markets, to assistance comprehend a intensity of common trade in products and services, and to foster investment and manufacturing.
Convening of a India-U.S. Political Military Dialogue on 4 Dec 2014 to sell perspectives on common vital and informal issues.
Convening a sixth turn of a India-U.S.-Japan trilateral discussions on 20 Dec 2014 to lower informal rendezvous and to plead ways to practice projects on a ground.
The launch of a Infrastructure Collaboration Platform in New Delhi on 13 Jan 2015 to foster extended marketplace entrance and financing to boost U.S. attention appearance in a enlargement and enlargement of sectors that support Indian infrastructure.
The 12-15 Jan 2015 consultant sell on Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) strategies and technologies and execution of a Joint Statement of Intent and a work devise for a programme of common C-IED cooperation.
The signing of a horizon on and coronation of a India-U.S. Investment Initiative in Washington on 12-15 Jan 2015 to jointly concur on facilitating collateral marketplace enlargement gainful to financing investment; formulating an sourroundings that encourages investment in several sectors in India; and operative to overcome any obstacles to such investment.
The convening of a Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Working Group in Washington on 14-15 Jan 2015 and a 23 Jan signing of a Joint Declaration of Intent to allege doing of a Digital India programme and serve common blurb ICT cooperation.
Launching of a Knowledge Partnership in counterclaim studies expressing a common enterprise to pursue collaborative activities between a United States and Indian National Defence Universities.
Signing of a Statement of Cooperation for Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information between a Reserve Bank of India and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve System, and Office of a Comptroller of Currency (OCC).
Convening of Indian and U.S. CEOs who are committed to deepening common mercantile ties by identifying stream impediments to trade and investment and operative with a twin supervision to find solutions; and identifying rising sectors where public-private partnership can clear new collaborations between a twin peoples.
The 13 Jan 2015 signing of a MoU between a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and a Ministry of Urban Development to capacitate USAID to share expertise, best practices, origination and technologies in support of India’s efforts to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in civic areas.
India’s new introduction of visa-on-arrival for U.S. adults and a convening of a initial technical discussions to allege India’s membership in a United States’ Global Entry Program, initiatives directed during easing ride between India and a United States to serve strengthen people-to-people ties.
Cooperation on systematic investigate partnership on a Indian Monsoon Rainfall now underway aboard a U.S. investigate vessel JOIDES Resolution in a Bay of Bengal.
The finish of a initial of twin devise annexes between a Indian Department of Atomic Energy–Department of Science and Technology and a U.S. Department of Energy, that will capacitate find scholarship team-work in molecule accelerator and high appetite physics.
The 22 Jan signing of a MoU between a U.S. Department of Treasury and India’s Ministry of Finance to raise team-work to fight income laundering and a financing of terrorism.
The Completion of an MoU between a Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Council of Medical Research, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, and a U.S National Institute of Health and National Cancer Institute.
The 23 Jan signing of a Joint Declaration of Intent between USAID and a Ministry of Human Resource Development for technical support to a Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), starting with IIT Gandhinagar, to strengthen investigate and entrepreneurship capabilities.
The new finalization of a 2015 Framework for a U.S.-India Defense Relationship, that will beam and raise a common counterclaim and vital partnership over a subsequent 10 years.
The 22 Jan signing of a India-U.S. Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation (RDTE) Agreement to foster team-work in counterclaim investigate and development.
Continuing common rendezvous on a Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI), including a 22 Jan 2015 agreement in component to pursue co-production and co-development of 4 trailblazer projects, form a operative organisation to try aircraft conduit record pity and design, and try probable team-work on enlargement of jet engine technology.
6. Prime Minister Modi and President Obama jointly appreciated a poignant efforts undertaken by both sides in new months to re-energize a vital partnership, and endorsed expanding a petrify underpinnings of a diversified common vital partnership including by stretched vital consultations, stronger defence, security, and mercantile cooperation.
7. President Obama also reiterated his support for Prime Minister Modi’s prophesy to renovate India, and famous that India’s concentration on a enlargement priorities presented estimable opportunities for forging stronger India-U.S. mercantile ties and incomparable people-to-people contacts. Reaffirming that India’s arise is also in a seductiveness of a United States, informal and tellurian stability, and tellurian mercantile growth, President Obama reiterated a United States’ willingness to partner with India in this transformation. The twin leaders affianced to interpret their joining of “Chalein Saath Saath”: “Forward Together We Go” of Sep into transformation by “Sanjha Prayaas; Sab Ka Vikaas”: “Shared Effort; Progress For All”.
Economic Growth
8. Prime Minister Modi and President Obama voiced certainty that continued common partnership will boost opportunities for investment, urge common trade and investment ties and lead to a origination of jobs and wealth in both economies. In this regard, a Leaders resolved to continue to strengthen their broad-based partnership for enlargement by stronger trade, technology, manufacturing, and investment linkages between a twin countries and triangular team-work with partner countries, and that continued efforts to say labor standards as per domestic law and resolved general norms will make these linkages some-more durable. The twin sides also committed to stability to concur on a finalization of a Post-Bali Work Programme in a suggestion of a Doha mandate.
9. The President and a Prime Minister endorsed their common joining to facilitating increasing common investment flows and fostering an open and predicted meridian for investment. To this end, a Leaders educated their officials to cruise a prospects for relocating brazen with high-standard common investment covenant discussions given their particular approaches.
10. The President and a Prime Minister also welcomed a fifth annual U.S.-India Economic and Financial Partnership Dialogue in February, in that a countries will lower their discourse on macroeconomic policy, financial zone law and development, infrastructure investment, taxation policy, and efforts to fight income laundering and militant financing.
11. The twin sides resolved to reason a contention on a elements compulsory in both countries to pursue an India-U.S. Totalisation Agreement.
12. President Obama commended Prime Minister Modi’s “Jan Dhan” intrigue to prioritize financial inclusion for India’s poor. The Leaders remarkable India’s vigilant to join a Better Than Cash Alliance.
13. The Leaders committed to try areas of partnership in ability enlargement trimming from substantiating peculiarity declaration systems for skilling acceptance standards, sourroundings adult of ability enlargement centres, nurturing and compelling amicable entrepreneurship and strengthening a origination and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
14. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi resolved to combine in a doing of India’s desirous Digital India programme and raise blurb cooperation, including by enlivening investment rendezvous in a Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.
15. In approval of a significance of their ongoing blurb discussions, a twin sides resolved to reason public-private discussions in early 2015 underneath a insurance of a India-U.S. Commercial Dialogue for a duration of twin years, until Mar 2016, on jointly resolved areas of cooperation.
16. Recognizing a swell done in constructive rendezvous on Intellectual Property underneath a final turn of a India-U.S. Trade Policy Forum hold in November, 2014, a Leaders also looked brazen to enhancing rendezvous on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in 2015 underneath a High Level Working Group on Intellectual Property, to a mutual advantage of both a countries.
17. Acknowledging a intensity for technological team-work in a rail zone in augmenting and optimizing India’s rail infrastructure, a Leaders resolved to foster U.S. Trade and Development Agency and Indian Railways technical team-work that will support Indian Railways’ efforts to cgange a leasing and public-private partnership frameworks to attract private zone funding.
18. The Leaders famous a clever public-private U.S.-India polite aviation partnership and resolved to continue operative together to brand rising technologies and build a incomparable blurb rendezvous bulletin by pivotal events such as a 2015 U.S.-India Aviation Summit and proof of modernized U.S. technologies.
19. Reaffirming their joining to reserve and certainty of polite aviation, a United States and India will continue consultations between a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and a India Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to safeguard general reserve standards set by a International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), with a aim of restoring Category we standing during a beginning probable time.
20. Noting a significance of ongoing team-work in aloft education, a President and Prime Minister welcomed ongoing efforts to extend a believe partnership for ancillary a Indian Institute of Technology during Gandhinagar by USAID. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi also affianced to combine by India’s Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN), to foster short-term training and investigate programs by adult to 1000 visiting U.S. academics in Indian universities.
21. The Leaders emphasized a significance of strengthening general financial institutions, including a International Monetary Fund. The President also endorsed his joining to enhancing India’s voice and opinion in general Financial Institutions and ensuring that resources are done permitted and used creatively by multilateral enlargement banks for infrastructure financing. Prime Minister Modi appreciated a efforts of a U.S. Treasury for auxiliary with a Ministry of Finance on a Task Force on Resolution Corporation set adult in pursuit of a recommendations of a Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission.
High Technology, Space and Health Cooperation
22. Prime Minister Modi and President Obama validated their joining to safeguard that partnerships in science, record and origination are a essential member of a altogether common rendezvous in a 21st century. They also validated their support for a purpose that science, record and origination partnerships can play in addressing dire hurdles in areas such as food, water, energy, climate, and health and building innovative solutions that are affordable, permitted and adaptable, accommodate a needs of a people of a twin countries and advantage a tellurian community. To this end, a Leaders resolved to continue to arise mild efforts in many areas of science, technology, and innovation, including study a impacts of water, atmosphere pollution, sanitation and hygiene on tellurian health and well-being.
23. The Leaders also resolved to continue U.S.-India partnership in hydrology and H2O studies and monsoon modelling and remarkable a need to rapidly work towards rising an Indo-U.S. Climate Fellowship to foster tellurian ability building. The Prime Minister and a President also validated a significance of ongoing efforts to strengthen women’s appearance in science, technology, engineering, and math by networking and mentoring programs.
24. The President and a Prime Minister acquire efforts, underneath a common High Technology Cooperation Group, to find timely fortitude of a hurdles to trade in High Technology goods, including a U.S. chartering mandate for trade in certain twin use items.
25. The Leaders validated a significance of providing pure and predicted routine environments for fostering innovation. Both countries reiterated their seductiveness in pity information and best practices on IPR issues, and validated their joining to stakeholders’ consultations on routine matters concerning egghead skill protection.
26. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi resolved to serve foster mild and blurb family between India and a United States in a margin of space. The leaders remarkable a persisting interactions between their space agencies, including towards realizing a twin magnitude radar imaging satellite for Earth Sciences, and exploring possibilities for team-work in study Mars.
27. The Leaders took note of ongoing U.S.-India space cooperation, including a initial face-to-face assembly of a ISRO-NASA Mars Working Group from 29-31 Jan 2015 in Bangalore, in that a twin sides will cruise opportunities for extended team-work in Mars exploration, including intensity concurrent observations and investigate between ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN idea (MAVEN). The Prime Minister and a President also welcomed continued swell toward extended space team-work around a U.S.-India Civil Space Joint Working Group, that will accommodate after this year in India.
28. Under a absolute of an implementing agreement between a U.S. Department of Energy and a Department of Atomic Energy of India, a Leaders welcomed stretched partnership in simple production research, and accelerator investigate and development.
29. The Leaders validated their joining to a Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and announced specific actions during home and abroad to forestall a widespread of spreading diseases, including a CDC-Ministry of Health Ebola and GHSA preparedness training, enlargement of a India Epidemic Intelligence Service, and enlargement of a roadmap to grasp a objectives of a GHSA within 3 years.
30. The Leaders also committed to multi-sectoral actions tackling a presentation and widespread of antimicrobial insurgency (AMR), and team-work in training of health workers in preparedness for spreading illness threats. The Leaders resolved to concentration scholarship and record partnerships on tackling antibiotic resistant germ and compelling a availability, potency and peculiarity of therapeutics.
31. The Leaders welcomed serve swell in compelling common team-work on cancer research, prevention, control, and government and resolved to continue to strengthen a rendezvous between a CDC and India’s National Centre for Disease Control.
32. The President and Prime Minister also welcomed a arriving execution of an Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Injury Prevention and Control MoU between a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a Indian Council for Medical Research to serve collaborative efforts to urge a health and gratification of both countries’ citizens.
33. The Prime Minister and a President also resolved to raise a India-U.S. Health Initiative into a Healthcare Dialogue with applicable stakeholders to serve strengthen common partnership in health sectors including by ability building initiatives and by exploring new areas, including affordable healthcare, cost saving mechanisms, placement barriers, obvious quality, health services information technology, and interrelated and normal medicine. The President and a Prime Minister affianced to inspire discourse between a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a Indian counterparts on normal medicine. The Leaders also affianced to strengthen collaboration, dialogue, and team-work between a regulatory authorities of a twin countries to safeguard safety, efficacy, and peculiarity of pharmaceuticals, including general medicines.
34. The Leaders also resolved to accelerate corner care of a tellurian Call to Action to finish preventable deaths among mothers and children by a third assembly of a 24 participating countries in India in Jun 2015. As host, India will showcase a appetite of new partnerships, innovations and systems to some-more effectively broach life-saving interventions. They also lauded a rarely successful partnership on a locally constructed vaccine opposite rotavirus that will save a lives of an estimated 80,000 children any year in India alone, and affianced to strengthen a team-work in health investigate and ability building by a new proviso of a India-U.S. Vaccine Action Programme.
Defence and Homeland Security Cooperation
35. Prime Minister Modi and President Obama welcomed a efforts done by both sides to raise common counterclaim team-work in areas of mutual seductiveness and validated their joining to continue to work towards deepening a common counterclaim relationship. The Leaders concurred common troops ties as a substructure of a invulnerability attribute and speedy their particular militaries to pursue additional opportunities for rendezvous by exercises, troops crew exchanges, and invulnerability dialogues.
36. The Leaders also concurred a need for a two-way counterclaim rendezvous to embody record team-work and collaboration, co-production and co-development. To this end, a President and a Prime Minister emphasized a ongoing significance of a Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) in building new areas of record team-work in a counterclaim zone including by co-development and co-production and a Prime Minister welcomed a U.S. Defense Department’s investiture of a dedicated fast greeting group focused exclusively on advancing DTTI. The Leaders voiced certainty that continued DTTI partnership will produce additional corner projects in a nearby future.
37. The President also welcomed a Prime Minister’s initiatives to liberalize a Foreign Direct Investment Policy regime in a counterclaim zone and a Leaders resolved to concur on India’s efforts to settle a counterclaim industrial bottom in India, including by initiatives like ‘Make in India.’
38. Prime Minister Modi and President Obama voiced compensation over a efforts done by both countries to lower team-work in a margin of nautical security, as reflected in a 2015 Framework for a U.S.-India Defense Relationship. To this end, they resolved that a navies of both sides would continue discussions to brand specific areas for expanding nautical cooperation. They also reiterated their joining to upgrading their common naval practice MALABAR.
39. The twin sides also remarkable a flourishing team-work between their law coercion agencies, quite in a areas of extradition and mutual authorised assistance, to opposite transnational rapist threats such as terrorism, narcotics, trafficking, financial and mercantile fraud, cybercrime, and transnational orderly crime and affianced to raise such team-work further. The President and a Prime Minister also remarkable a vicious risks to inhabitant and mercantile certainty from antagonistic cyber activity and resolved to concur on enhancing operational pity of cyber hazard information, examining how general law relates in cyberspace, and operative together to build agreement on norms of obliged state behavior.
40. The Leaders committed to commence efforts to make a U.S.-India partnership a defining counterterrorism attribute for a 21st Century by deepening partnership to fight a full spectrum of militant threats and keep their particular homelands and adults protected from attacks. The Leaders reiterated their clever defamation of terrorism in all a forms and manifestations with ‘zero tolerance’ and validated their low regard over a continued hazard acted by transnational terrorism including by groups like Al Qaida and a ISIL, and called for expelling militant protected havens and infrastructure, disrupting militant networks and their financing, and interlude cross-border transformation of terrorists.
41. The Leaders validated a need for corner and accordant efforts to disrupt entities such as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, D Company and a Haqqani Network, and resolved to continue ongoing efforts by a Homeland Security Dialogue as good as a subsequent turn of a U.S.-India Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism in late 2015 to arise actionable elements of common engagement. The twin sides remarkable a new U.S. sanctions opposite 3 D Company affiliates. The President and a Prime Minister serve resolved to continue to work toward an agreement to share information on famous and suspected terrorists. They also resolved to enter discussions to lower partnership on UN militant designations, and reiterated their call for Pakistan to move a perpetrators of a Nov 2008 militant dispute in Mumbai to justice.
42. The President and a Prime Minister also remarkable a certain mild rendezvous between a Indian and a U.S. authorities with a perspective to operative together to opposite a hazard of IEDs and to arise counterterrorism best practices.
Energy and Climate Change
43. Noting that a Contact Group set adult in Sep 2014 to allege doing of common polite chief team-work has met 3 times in Dec and January, a Leaders welcomed a understandings reached on a issues of polite chief guilt and executive arrangements for polite chief cooperation, and looked brazen to U.S.-built chief reactors contributing to India’s appetite certainty during a earliest.
Clean Energy Goal and Cooperation
44. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi emphasized a vicious significance of expanding purify appetite research, development, production and deployment, that increases appetite entrance and reduces hothouse gas emissions. The leaders announced actions to allege India’s transition to low CO economy. India intends to boost a share of use of renewable in electricity era unchanging with a dictated idea to boost India’s solar aim to 100 gigawatts by 2022. The United States intends to support India’s idea by enhancing team-work on purify appetite and meridian change, to include:
i. Expanding Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Research (PACE-R): A renewed joining to PACE-R, including fluctuating appropriation for 3 existent investigate marks of solar energy, building appetite efficiency, and biofuels for an additional 5 years and rising a new lane on intelligent grid and grid storage.
ii. Expanding Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Deployment (PACE-D): Both a countries dictated to raise a stream Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Deployment (PACE-D) by increasing common engagements and serve corner initiatives to raise team-work in support of India’s desirous targets in renewable energy.
iii. Accelerating Clean Energy Finance: Prime Minister Modi emphasized India’s ongoing efforts to emanate a marketplace sourroundings that will foster trade and investment in this sector. President Obama welcomed India’s desirous solar appetite goals and speedy India to continue a efforts to boost trade and private investment in this sector. President Obama conveyed a intensity accessibility of U.S. Government executive financing in this area, unchanging with a policies, to support private zone impasse for those entities in contributing to India’s purify appetite requirements.
iv. Launching Air Quality Cooperation: Implementing EPA’s AIR Now-International Program and megacities partnerships, focused on disseminating information to assistance a civic dwellers to revoke their bearing to damaging levels of atmosphere pollution, and capacitate civic routine planners to practice visual strategies for improving Ambient Air Quality in a cities gripping in perspective health and meridian change co-benefits of these strategies.
v. Initiating Climate Resilience Tool Development: Jointly endeavour a partnership on meridian resilience that will work to downscale general meridian models for a Indian sub-continent to most aloft fortitude than now available, cruise meridian risks during a sub-national level, work with internal technical institutes on ability building, and rivet internal decision-makers in a routine of addressing meridian information needs and informing formulation and meridian volatile tolerable development, including for India’s State Action Plans.
vi. Demonstrating Clean Energy and Climate Initiatives on a Ground: Additional commander programs and other collaborative projects in a areas of space cooling, super-efficient appliances, renewable appetite storage, and intelligent grids.
vii. Concluding MOU on Energy Security, Clean Energy and Climate Change: Both countries resolved negotiations on a 5 year MOU to lift this work forward, to be sealed as early as probable during a jointly resolved on date.
Climate Change
45. The United States of America and a Republic of India commend that tellurian meridian change is a surpassing hazard to amiability and to a imperatives of tolerable development, enlargement and a expulsion of poverty. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi share a low regard per a meridian plea and know that assembly it will need accordant transformation by their countries and a general community. They stressed a significance of enhancing their common team-work on instrumentation measures, as good as corner investigate and enlargement and record innovation, adoption and freeing for purify appetite and potency solutions that will assistance grasp a goals of transitioning to a meridian volatile and low CO economy. They also stressed a significance of operative together and with other countries to interpretation an desirous meridian agreement in Paris in 2015. To this end, they devise to concur closely over a subsequent year to grasp a successful agreement in Paris. The President and Prime Minister validated their before bargain from Sep 2014 concerning a proviso down of HFCs and resolved to concur on creation petrify swell in a Montreal Protocol this year.
Global Issues and Regional Consultations
46. The Leaders resolved to raise their efforts to support other building countries and residence tellurian enlargement hurdles for a advantage of a wider segment and a universe and they lauded ongoing triangular assistance, that might engage U.S.-India partnership to residence enlargement hurdles in third countries in areas including health, energy, food security, disaster management, and women’s empowerment. The twin sides remarkable that this collaboration, that is active with Afghanistan, East and West Africa, might be stretched to additional third countries.
47. Further underscoring a significance of implementing infrastructure projects to raise connectivity and capacitate freer upsurge of commerce and appetite in a region, a Leaders resolved to arise additional areas in that both sides could work together, including on India’s initiatives to raise a connectivity with a South and South East Asian region. The President and a Prime Minister also stressed a significance of a mercantile and ride connectivity between Central and South Asia and a need to foster a secure, stable, and moneyed Afghanistan as partial of a secure, stable, and moneyed region. Reaffirming a significance of their vital partnerships with Afghanistan, a Leaders asserted a significance of a sustainable, inclusive, sovereign, and approved domestic sequence in Afghanistan and they resolved to assemble serve high-level consultations on Afghanistan in a nearby future.
48. The President and a Prime Minister also welcomed a purpose of a leaders- led East Asia Summit (EAS) routine in compelling open, offset and thorough certainty design in a region. Noting a discussions in a sixth turn of a India-US-Japan Trilateral Dialogue, a President and a Prime Minister underlined a significance of a team-work between a 3 countries by marker of projects of common seductiveness and their early implementation, and they motionless to try holding a discourse among their Foreign Ministers.
49. The President and Prime Minister affianced to strengthen their efforts to forge a partnership to lead tellurian efforts for non-proliferation of WMDs, to revoke a salience of chief weapons in general affairs, and to foster universal, verifiable and non-discriminatory tellurian chief disarmament. They upheld negotiations on a fissile component cut-off Treaty on a basement of a Shannon Mandate in a Conference on Disarmament.
50. As active participants in a Nuclear Security Summit process, a United States and India welcomed swell towards shortening a risk of terrorists appropriation chief weapons or associated materials, and remarkable their common joining to improving chief certainty nationally and globally. The Prime Minister welcomed a hosting of a 2016 Nuclear Security Summit by a United States. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi also welcomed a new convening of a initial common chief certainty best practices exchange, underneath a auspices of a Global Center for Nuclear Energy Partnership, as an instance of their team-work on chief security.
51. In a serve bid to strengthen tellurian nonproliferation and trade control regimes, a President and a Prime Minister committed to continue to work towards India’s phased entrance into a Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a Wassenaar Arrangement, and a Australia Group. The President validated a United States’ position that India meets MTCR mandate and is prepared for NSG membership and that it supports India’s early focus and contingent membership in all 4 regimes.
52. The Leaders voiced regard over a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) chief and ballistic barb programmes, including a uranium improvement activity. They urged a DPRK to take petrify stairs toward denuclearization, as good as to approve entirely with a general obligations, including applicable UN Security Council Resolutions, and to perform a commitments underneath a 2005 Joint Statement of a Six-Party talks.
53. The Leaders welcomed new swell and remarkable a criticality of Iran holding stairs to verifiably assure a general village of a exclusively pacific inlet of a chief programme, and resolved that this is an ancestral event for Iran to solve superb concerns associated to a chief programme.
54. Highlighting a United States’ and India’s common approved values and noticing a vicious purpose of women in their societies, a Leaders looked brazen to reconvening a Women Empowerment Dialogue as early as probable and reasserted their 0 toleration for assault opposite women. The Leaders also looked brazen to a reconvening of a Global Issues Forum.
55. The President and a Prime Minister also validated their joining to deliberate closely on tellurian crises, including in Iraq and Syria. The Leaders resolved to sell information on people returning from these dispute zones and to continue to concur in safeguarding and responding to a needs of civilians held adult in these conflicts.
56. President Obama validated his support for a reformed UN Security Council with India as a permanent member, and both leaders committed to ensuring that a Security Council continues to play an effective purpose in progressing general assent and certainty as envisioned in a United Nations Charter. They also committed to accelerate their peacekeeping capacity-building efforts in third countries.
57. Both sides also concurred that a Internet was a executive component of a information multitude and a absolute enabler of tellurian mercantile and amicable progress. Both sides also remarkable that a enlargement of a Internet in a entrance decade would be from building countries, of that India would be a poignant contributor, generally in a context of a “Digital India” programme.
58. The Leaders famous that a digital order persists between and within countries in terms of a availability, affordability and use of information and communications technologies, and they stressed a need to continue to overpass that divide, to safeguard that a advantages of new technologies, generally information and communications technologies for development, are permitted to all people, including a lowest of a poor.
59. President Obama thanked Prime Minister Modi and a people of India for a unusual liberality extended to him on his second presidential revisit to India, and he congratulated a republic on a jubilee of a 66th Republic Day. The Leaders reflected proudly on new achievements and looked brazen to stability to work together to build a U.S.-India partnership that is transformative for their twin peoples and for a world.