The two deliberated on how to go about in implementing the agreement, with the US Ambassador emphasising the need for taking the next steps as early as possible as delay could endanger the agreement
The bank said that Mulford has a long association with Credit Suisse dating back to start of his investment banking career at White, Weld and Company as Head of International Finance. He was responsible for coordinating efforts with its partner, Credit Suisse White Weld on international business.
Mulford is understood to have conveyed the US' displeasure over the uncertainty that has come to surround the crucial initiative between the two countries. In his third meeting in four days with leaders and officials, the US envoy is believed to have sought to know what the government is planning to do to push the deal that is being vigorously opposed by the Left Front. The meeting came a day after Singh said the "process of evolving a meaningful consensus is still on."
Dr Singh said that he shares the sentiments of the members of the Left.
Seeking to put an end to the controversy over George W Bush's remarks on food habits of Indians, US Ambassador David Mulford dismissed suggestions that the President had made any critical comments. Bush has come under all round attack from political parties for his comments that improving food habits in India were among the reasons for the increase in global prices of foodgrains.
Keeping political differences at bay, both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left parties expressed their displeasure over the statement of United States Ambassador David Mulford on Indo-US nuclear understanding and the FDI issue.
"We have changed laws in the US when we negotiated the 123 agreement. Both sides have agreed and it will move ahead," US Ambassador to India David Mulford said. The deal will help India meet its energy needs, he said.
Outgoing United States Ambassador to India, David Mulford, believes that India can help stimulate the world economy in the wake of the global economic meltdown.Mulford observed that "Developing countries have tended to be recipients during times of difficulty, but this time, some of them may be stimulators and producers. That is an important thought to bear in mind when you are in the condition that the United States is today."
United States' Ambassador to India David Mulford, who will soon vacate his position, feels that the 'credible evidence' gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was handed over to Pakistan, had forced Islamabad to admit that its nationals were complicit in the terror attack on Mumbai.Mulford also expressed hope that this will pave the way for joint US-India counter-terrorism cooperation without any of the earlier hang-ups.
US Ambassador to India David Mulford said India as a sovereign nation can and will always have the right to go for a nuclear test. But if India does so, under US laws there could then be a cessation of civil nuclear relationship.
US Ambassador David Mulford said that the deal was good for India and would make the country the centre of a civil nuclear industry in the world. "If this is not processed in the present Congress, it is unlikely that this deal will be offered again to India. It certainly would not be revived and offered by any administration, Democratic or Republican, before the year 2010, which is after the life of this administration," he said.
"It is a mistake on the part of India to have voted against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting," Jaya said.
The US companies have huge interest in investing in high-tech commerce in India, which has the advantage of large human capital, David C Mulford, US Ambassador to India, said on Tuesday.
During his confirmation hearing, David Campbell Mulford made it clear that it will be realistic to accept India as a nuclear power.
David C Mulford, who will soon vacate his post as United States'ambassador to India, has urged the Obama administration to ensure the implementation of the India-US civilian nuclear agreement.In an interaction at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, Mulford said, "The nuclear deal may be completed, but the work isn't done. There is unfinished business there to be done."
The US senate will now have to approve Mulford's nomination, which was announced by the White House on Thursday.
Amid the diplomatic and political storm generated by the disclosures on the India-United States nuclear deal, US Ambassador to India David Mulford met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Thursday and sought to clarify Washington's stand.Although officials were tight-lipped about what was discussed at the meeting, sources said Mulford told the Prime Minister that no new conditions had been introduced.A senior US embassy official sought to play down the meeting.
US Ambassador David Mulford on Thursday expressed concern that aspiring Fulbright scholars wanting to visit India are having problems in getting their projects cleared and visas issued by Indian authorities.
Mulford said very little about the meeting except that it was regarding the civil nuclear deal during which he explained his country's position to Sinha, a key person in the BJP.
The US is set to send its diplomat A Peter Burleigh to 'temporarily' fill in for David Mulford as its ambassador to India. It has been over a month since Mulford returned to Washington after getting a one-month extension from US President Barack Obama.
The FBI has sought access to interrogate Mumbai terror attack suspects in Pakistan which has so far not agreed to it, US Ambassador to India David Mulford disclosed today.
"The best is yet to come" in the relations between India and the US, Mulford said.
Outsourcing has led to joblessness in the United States and is a reason for concern, but it is a natural part of the evolving global economy, according to US Ambassador to India, David C Mulford.
"India's growing economy, vibrant democracy, and inclusive culture, encourage Muslims to seek success and social mobility in the mainstream and reduces alienation. With Indian Muslim youth increasingly comfortable in the mainstream, the pool of potential recruits is shrinking, while Muslim families and communities provide little sanction or support to extremist appeals," the cable said.
Under intense attack and criticism, former Army Chief Gen V K Singh on Tuesday made a U-turn on his claim that ministers and MLAs in Jammu and Kashmir are getting payments from the army, saying no such thing happens.
Politics in Kashmir is "as filthy as Dal lake" and corruption cuts across party lines, according to leaked United States diplomatic cables from India released by Wikileaks.
Post 26/11, a section of the Congress leadership was seen playing religious politics after one of its leaders, A R Antulay, implied that Hindutva forces may have been involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, according to a confidential memo by the then US ambassador to India, David Mulford, released by WikiLeaks.
Stating that India was an attractive destination for long-term investments, US Ambassador to India David C Mulford on Thursday called for further removal of restrictions to attract more US investors.
The LeT terror campaign is backed by the power and resources of a state. To compare this with the acts of a crowd of motley Hindu extremists is like equating chalk with cheese, says Colonel (retd) Anil Athale.
At a time when the nuclear deal was being negotiated, the United States had tried to pressurise India over its ties with Iran and even objected to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Delhi, saying it would give 'platform for an enemy of the US', according to Wikileaks documents. The cables sent by the then US ambassador David Mulford to the State Department make it clear that India did not want America to tell it "what to do, especially in public".
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