New Delhi
30 June 2011
The US strongly supports the NSG's clean waiver for India, outgoing
ambassador Timothy Roemer said.
"I want to say that the US and the Obama Administration strongly and vehemently
support the clean waiver for India. The 123 civil nuclear legislation also underscores our
support for India in this debate that is going on and our law also points to the clean
waiver for India," Roemer said in his last interaction with the media.
Asked to comment on the issue of excessive frisking and body searches of Indian
diplomats, officials and other eminent Indians at the US airports, Roemer said the US
was working on these issues to prevent their recurrence in future.
"When Janet Napolitano (US Homeland Security Secretary) was here, she said that we
are working to improve [and] coordinating more and more on travel itineraries [of VIPs]
so that those experiences don't take place in future," Roemer said.
Roemer resigned on April 28, citing personal, professional and family considerations.
Albert Peter Burleigh is expected to succeed Roemer as the interim US ambassador in
India. Burleigh (69) is no stranger to India, having temporarily served as charge
d'affaires at the US embassy in New Delhi from April to July 2009, after David Mulford
completed his tenure as ambassador here and before Roemer took up his current
position.
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