2008-07-09 08:39:30 - Dr Singh said he was satisfied about the state of bilateral relationship which has truly acquired the characteristics of a genuine strategic partnership.
The leaders made the remarks after a meeting but took no questions.Bush, who first spoke, said "We talked about the nuclear deal, how important it is for our respective countries."

Prime Minister Mr Singh and President Bush to meet in Hotel Windsor on Mt Poromoi hours before the Left parties would be formally withdrawing support to the UPA government on the nuclear deal, both Dr Singh and Bush expressed mutual admiration for each other and spoke of the need for closer relationship between the two countries.

Civil atomic deal is looked

upon an important event for the development of two countries,US economy in shambles in recession needs to revitalise its economy by injecting more business from India to prop-up their economy.India on the other hand needs to sustain its growth is in dire need of an alternate to power,fuel, oil scary price rise, a civl nuclear energy demands too soars, source of energy.

At home in India the political cross fire is emerging too hot ,the left to go to the President to update their withdrawl of support to UPA coalition government in which the left has 60 members and with SP coming to their forte of UPA .
PM Dr Singh is in inspirational mood of showing his statesmanship for pushing the deal,strengthening Indo-US relations when two biggest democracy are sick with cash crunch,food price rise,unemployment to rise with fuel soaring cost .
US suffering from stagflation due to their long drawn battle in Afghanistan and Iraq.General election is coming within six months in two great democratic nations find the 123 civil nuclear agreement in the interest of two countries in wider spectrum.Bush and dr Singh,the two great leaders wants to excute the historical agreement in their tenure to provea point to the historians.

Left parties of four group of communist supporting coalition government has publicly condemned the way of handling the deal and said that their points of clarification are not answered,the text of IAEA is not shown to them ,they will be releasing a docuement publicly to prove their points that the deal pushed is not in the interest of the nation.Right wing BJP Leaders in theatricaly way wants UPA to prove their majority on the floor of the Lower house before going for the atomic deal.

Dr Singh in his remarks did not refer to the deal but said the two countries have made progress in all areas including nuclear, defence, space co-operation and education exchanges.

The Prime Minister said the two leaders reviewed the state of Indo-American relations."I'm very happy to convey to the President that our relationship has moved forward since our first meeting in July 2005 the year they okayed the nuclear deal.We have made progress in all areas.We have made progress in nuclear co-operation, defence co-operation and space co-operation and in educational exchanges.Dr Singh said India and US are working together in multilateral institutions for the success of Doha round."I'm satisfied about our state of relationship which has truly acquired the characteristics of a genuine strategic partnership."I thank the president for his personal and magnificent role in the evolution of our relationship. All I can say is our relationship has never been in such good shape as it is today.
"It is the intention of my government as I believe it is also the will of the Indian people, particularly the thinking sessions of the people that in this increasingly inter-dependent world that we live in whether it is the question of climate change and global economy, India and US must stand tall and work together shoulder to shoulder that is what is going to be."