JKAPHC Media Cell: Former US ambassador to India Robert Blackwill has said that the Obama administration wanted good relations with India, but there could be a substantial change in Obama`s policies from that of the George W. Bush administration would take very hard work and skilful diplomacy from both the governments to keep the US-India relationship on its current level, he added.
Robert said that New Delhi might face pressure from the Obama administration over resolving the Kashmir dispute and on signing the CTBT. He thought the Obama administration`s current preoccupation with Pakistan and China had led to the downgrading of India in US` strategic calculations.
He was optimistic about the long-term prospects for Indo-US relationship, but he cautioned that in the immediate future bilateral ties were likely to be more problematic than had seen in recent years.
He singled out differing perceptions on Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Iran, civil nuclear cooperation, CTBT, climate change, India`s nuclear weapons and protectionism as some of key problematical issues which could cause a variety of problems in the US-India relationship in the next months and years.
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