'Indo US relationship improved over last 20 years'

The United States has said that its relationship with India has improved over the last 20 years and India is playing a growing role in world issues.

The United States has said that its relationship with India has improved over the last 20 years and India is playing a growing role in world issues.

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"Relations between the world's largest democracy and the world's oldest democracy have improved significantly over the last 20 years," the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, P J Crowley, said yesterday.

India, Crowley said at the State Department briefing, is playing a vastly more significant role on issues ranging from climate change to non-proliferation, extremism, global economy and food security.

The upcoming visit of the US Secretary of State Hillary R Clinton to India, Crowley said, is a "tremendous opportunity" to expand and deepen the relationship between the United States and India not just in a bilateral standpoint, but also seeing how India can play a much more significant role on a multilateral basis as well.