Hillary Clinton's India Visit

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Farmers' suicides of great concern, says Clinton

Farmers' suicides of great concern, says Clinton
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New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday said farmers need financial security to prevent them committing suicide as has been happening in India, and stop them from drifting away from agriculture, like in the US.

'Yeah, it (farmers' suicides) is a great concern. It is mainly because of loans,' she said.

In India, she said, farmers are committing suicide because of the burden of debt and in the US, they are 'drifting from it (agriculture)' for the same reason. Clinton said farmers need financial security.

In recent years, there have been many cases of farmers' suicides in India due to debt and crop failure. The United Progressive Alliance government has waived off billions of rupees in loans for farmers to stem the suicides.

Clinton said farming needed to be organised. The situation can improve 'if we can put more dollars back to the farmers' instead of allowing middlemen to step in.

Indo Asian News Service

 

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bunch of liars and hypocrites.

this is the look MMS got to pressure him to talk to pakistan.

LoL LF ,i was drinking water when i read this and it came out of my nose

 

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U.S., India expected to sign defence pact on Monday

19 Jul 2009 23:17:17 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Arshad Mohammed

NEW DELHI, July 20 (Reuters) - The United States and India are expected to sign an agreement on Monday that would take a major step towards allowing the sale of sophisticated U.S. arms to the South Asian nation, three senior U.S. officials said.

Known as an "end-use monitoring" agreement and required by U.S. law for such weapons sales, the pact would let Washington check that India was using any arms for the purposes intended and preventing the technology from leaking to others.

The deal would be a tangible accomplishment of Hillary Clinton's first trip to India as U.S. secretary of state and it could prove a boon to U.S. companies such as Lockheed Martin Corp <LMT.N> and Boeing Co <BA.N>.

Both U.S. defence contractors are in the running to compete for India's plan to buy 126 multi-role fighters, which would be one of the largest arms deals in the world as India takes steps to modernise its largely Russian-made arsenal.

The two U.S. companies are competing with Russia's MiG-35, France's Dassault Rafale, Sweden's Saab <SAABb.ST> KAS-39 Gripen and the Eurofighter Typhoon, made by a consortium of British, German, Italian and Spanish firms, for the contract.

The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition that they not be identified, said the defence agreement was not finalised as of late Sunday but that they expected it to go through in time for Clinton's signature on Monday.

"If we don't sign that, it will be a definite slap in the face," said a U.S. congressional aide ahead of Clinton's visit to New Delhi, where she will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Monday.

Clinton's visit aims to deepen ties with India, a country whose economic power and political stability make it a natural U.S. ally, according to analysts, despite the long history of U.S.-Indian tensions during the Cold War when Washington at times tilted toward India's rival Pakistan.

U.S. officials hope for two other tokens of a closer relationship to be confirmed during Clinton's trip: an Indian announcement of two nuclear sites reserved for U.S. companies to build reactors and a broad strategic dialogue to be led by the U.S. secretary of state and the Indian foreign minister.

U.S. officials estimate that the nuclear sites represent up to $10 billion in business for U.S. nuclear reactor builders such as General Electric Co. <GE.N> and Westinghouse Electric Co, a subsidiary of Japan's Toshiba Corp <6502.T>.

In addition to her official talks with Singh and Krishna, Clinton planned to meet Sonia Gandhi, the head of the ruling Congress party, and with L.K. Advani, the aging leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, on Monday. (Editing by Alex Richardson)

Reuters AlertNet - U.S., India expected to sign defence pact on Monday

 

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'Trip to Ind is Clinton's way to distance from Obama'

STAFF WRITER 23:8 HRS IST

Washington, Jul 24 (PTI) Claiming that differences have emerged between US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State on foreign policy issues, an American magazine today suggested that Hillary Clinton's trip to India and Thailand has been her way to distance herself from the White House.

"The trip to India and Thailand, in one sense, is Clinton's way of literally and figuratively distancing herself from Obama, her way of letting us know she has better policies for dealing with Beijing," wrote Forbes columnists Gordon G Chang.

Author of the book "The Coming Collapse of China", Gordon said that during her recent visit to India, Clinton devoted most of her time to relationship-building events.

"Clinton's concept of siding with another large democracy seems much more attractive-and sustainable," he wrote, adding most important, the US and India share values.