On the telephone conversation between Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President Bush

New Delhi
September 6, 2008

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President Bush today spoke to each other on telephone. The Prime Minister thanked President Bush for his role in taking forward the civil nuclear initiative and the decision by the Nuclear Suppliers Group to adjust its guidelines to enable full civil nuclear cooperation between India and the international community. The two leaders expressed their belief that mutually beneficial relations between India and the United States were in the interest of their peoples, and were on a path of steady consolidation and multifaceted expansion, to which both leaders reiterated their commitment.