NEW DELHI, July 24- India’s Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari (photo), on Tuesday said that India and the United States should “jointly” counter the threats of terrorism and extremism with a realistic perspective of the dangers they pose to global peace, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
“Threats to peace, many in India’s immediate region, are the greatest impediments to progress. They emanate from terrorism, extremism, intolerance, injustice and misuse of the benefits of science and technology.
“It is incumbent on our two nations to counter these threats, jointly and individually, with a realistic perspective of the dangers they pose,” he said at a banquet hosted in honour of US Vice President Joseph Biden who is visiting India.
Ansari said that countering threats is one aspect of cooperation between the two countries and an equally important aspect is the “promotion of stability and widening the global arc of prosperity.”
“Both necessitate a deeper understanding of each other’s essential interests and legitimate aspirations,” he said.
He also noted that “remarkable progress” has been registered in bilateral cooperation between India and the US and “we now have a tradition of political engagement at the highest level”.
“From an Indian perspective, we have with the US more defence cooperation, strategic dialogues, economic exchanges and science and technology partnerships than with any other country,” he said.
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