BANGALORE – India and the United States start an ambitious chapter in space cooperation this week, marking a U-turn from a long estrangement linked to US sanctions against India’s nuclear programme.
About 150 US experts will join a five-day conference in India’s technology capital of Bangalore today to discuss collaboration on research, production, trade and satellite navigation. “This conference really symbolises our coming together again,” Marco Di Capua, counsellor for science and technology at the US embassy in New Delhi, told a news conference late on Saturday at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) office.The initiative comes against the backdrop of US efforts to enlist India, Pakistan and China in moves to curb weapons of mass destruction while building a common front in its global war on terrorism.- Nampa-Reuters”This conference really symbolises our coming together again,” Marco Di Capua, counsellor for science and technology at the US embassy in New Delhi, told a news conference late on Saturday at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) office.The initiative comes against the backdrop of US efforts to enlist India, Pakistan and China in moves to curb weapons of mass destruction while building a common front in its global war on terrorism.- Nampa-Reuters
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