US Ambassador called on CM
 

Hyderabad|India|October'2009: The United States Ambassador Mr. Timothy J.Roemer called on the Chief Minister K.Rosaiah at Secretariat. The two leaders exchanged views and discussed in detail areas of mutual interest. The U.S. Ambassador who was enamoured by the progress made by Andhra Pradesh in various fields, particularly in IT, Biotechnology, Education, Pharmachetucals and Micro Finance said there are many areas where Andhra Pradesh can work with US departments. The Ambassador hailed the progress achieved by the State in different fields.

The Chief Minister who welcomed the Ambassador to Andhra Pradesh explained to him about the priorities of his government. He listed out the State progress in education, women empowerment, irrigation (Jalayagnam) agriculture, IT and BT etc. The Ambassador invited the Chief Minister to visit the United States. While speaking about flood relief and rescue operations, the Chief Minister told Mr Roemer that he, ministers and most of the senior officials spent 48 hours without sleep.

U.S.Consul General in Hyderabad, Mr.Cornelis M.Keur, Adviser to Govt., Mr.Peter Hassan and Chief Secretary, Mr.Ramakantha Reddy and other officials were present. Later the US Ambassador spoke to the media persons briefly.

“It is a privilege for me to visit India as a personal representative of President of USA Mr.Barak Obama and it is my first visit to Hyderabad. This is a dynamic and very fascinating community here having very close ties with United States. I am honoured to be here this morning. The Chief Minister has got a grate deal of background and acumen in financial matters with whom, I had very productive discussions. We talked about issues like Education, partnership for exchanging ideas on education reforms on building community colleges to teach young people the kind of education, jobs in the local community”.


“The Chief Minister explained about infrastructure, business opportunities and investment. I told him that the US is working on a bilateral treaty which is in negotiating phase between US and India which will result in the months ahead as agreed upon for direct investment opportunities in infrastructure projects between India and US. This may be in the areas like construction of roads, bridges, power projects. We look forward to more discussions in December between US and India on this bilateral investment treaty. We also talked about issues of floods and flooding. After seeing the calamity here we thought of to send money directly down to the State and also to the Central Government. We tried to target the localities to reach the people directly”.


The Chief Minister and I talked about not only these efforts but how to work in future on flood prevention and the types of projects that might take place on that front. I look forward to meeting him again in my future visits to Hyderabad. I look forward to hosting him at Delhi and to getting to know the Chief Minister better. We express our condolences and prayers on the tragic death of Dr. Reddy. Before we new about the tragic death we afford resources to the Home Minister. I want to express my personal heartfelt sympathies to the people of Andhra Pradesh.

I aleady met the Governor N D Tiwari. President Barak Obama is extremely excited and passionate of Indo-US relationships. He thinks the relationship between India and US is not only the most important in the world but one of the best relationships. Mr. Obama is very much looking forward to hosting Prime Minister in November for the United States. Mr Singh will be the Obama administration's first distinguished State Guest”.