US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ongoing visit to the United States as a “watershed moment”. Garcetti expressed his belief that this week’s events have the potential to reshape the course of history, as the two democratic nations come together to pursue peace and prosperity.
During the summit between Modi and President Joe Biden, it is expected that India and the United States will announce several crucial defense partnerships.
These partnerships could reinforce the strategic alliance between the two nations and bolster their joint efforts in addressing global challenges.
In his keynote address to the inaugural INDUS-X conference organised by the US India Business Council in partnership with the US Department of Defense and India’s Department of Defence Production in Washington late Tuesday, Garcetti said , “We’re just getting in the car together and we’re starting this voyage. It’s the elevation of something that has been growing.
“Two democracies, after all, are about our people. 1.75 billion of them are unstoppable, a force for peace, for prosperity, for our planet and for people,” Garcetti said.
He said India and the US can help to work and preserve the planet, bring peace and look all the way up into the air and beyond.
Garcetti said both India and the US need to be able to navigate their regulation and bureaucratic culture more readily.
“I think if we’re harsh critics of ourselves, which we always have to be, there’s so much more we can do to take the rhetoric of this moment and actually institutionalise it into the way that we do business from the newest bureaucrat all the way up to the leaders of our two countries,” he said.