Manmohan Singh realized Barack Obama is ‘very supportive’ towards India in G8

October 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is making the first state visit of his presidency next month, that he looks forward to receiving the Indian leader in Washington. Obama also expressed concern over last week's attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul in a telephone call to Manmohan Singh Saturday, returning a call from the prime minister to congratulate him on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

October 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Highlighting the strong and growing strategic partnership between India and the United States, President Barack Obama will welcome Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the White House Nov 24 for the first state visit of his presidency, it was announced here Friday. Obama and his wife Michelle will also host an official state dinner that same evening for Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement.

September 26th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has made it clear that neither will India sign pacts like the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nor does the new UN Security Council resolution make such a demand. "We have been assured that this not a resolution directed at India and the US commitment to carry out its obligations under the civilian nuclear deal that we have signed remains undiluted," the prime minister said here Friday night.

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - External Affairs Minister S M Krishna met US President Barack Obama here today. After his meeting with Krishna, Obama said: "Looking forward to first state visit by Indian Prime Minister Dr.

July 16th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet and discuss the nature of dialogue between the two countries in the future and will review action against terrorism. Manmohan Singh also made it clear that another Mumbai-like terrorist attack will affect dialogue of any kind.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will go to the US later this year while US President Barack Obama will visit India next year. The invitations were exchanged and accepted by the two leaders at a brief "pull-aside" meeting during the G8-G5 summit meeting in this quake-hit Italian town Thursday, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Prime MInister Manmohan Singh briefly met with US President Barack Obama during the outreach meeting of G8 and G5 leaders at their summit here Thursday. Both leaders shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, Indian officials said here.

July 7th, 2009 ROME - India Tuesday said its ties with the US were "progressing well". "India-US relations are progressing well.

June 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama would like India and Pakistan to have a dialogue to resolve their differences, but the US cannot dictate how they should go about it or mediate in the process. "I believe that there are opportunities, maybe not starting with Kashmir but starting with other issues, that Pakistan and India can be in a dialogue together and over time to try to reduce tensions and find areas of common interest," Obama told Pakistan's Dawn group in an interview published Sunday.

June 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has ruled out any American mediation on Kashmir issue, by saying that bilateral dialogue is the best way to reduce tension between India and Pakistan. "We want to be helpful in that process, but I don't think it's appropriate for us to be the mediators in that process.

June 17th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - With India putting Pakistan on the defensive over cross-border terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said President Asif Ali Zardari did not raise the Kashmir issue during his discussions with him in Russia. "No discussion on Kashmir took place.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has welcomed as "encouraging" a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the aftermath of the November Mumbai attacks saying the two countries need to continue their dialogue. "A resumption of such high-level engagement in the aftermath of the November Mumbai attacks is encouraging," State Department Spokesman, Ian Kelly told reporters Tuesday when asked to comment on the two leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the Yekaterinburg summit.

June 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has termed the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Russia as positive but said no conditions should be laid down for resuming the sub-continental dialogue that New Delhi suspended in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. We are of the viewpoint that the negotiations should not be conditional as we cannot understand each other without negotiations so we expect to make dialogue result oriented and irreversible," Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit told a private TV channel Wednesday.

June 17th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - India would review Pakistan's actions against anti-India terror outfits before deciding on resuming the composite dialogue mid-July, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday, a day after he met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Russia. The prime minister said he would wait for the outcome of the talks between the foreign secretaries of the two countries, who are expected to meet within a month, before taking a decision on resuming the composite dialogue that stalled after the Mumbai terror attacks nearly seven months ago.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in the next few weeks and review Islamabad's actions against terrorism before taking a decision on resuming their "composite dialogue", it was decided during talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday. The two leaders agreed to a meeting between their foreign secretaries to discuss the "primary issue" of terrorism and report to them before the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian town of Sharm-al-Sheikh in mid-July, officials said.