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Deeper ties with India top U.S. foreign policy priority: Obama

Xinhua, January 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that deeper ties with India would be top U.S. foreign policy priority, giving a major boost to relations between the two countries.

"Deeper ties with India will be America's top foreign policy priority," Obama said at a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Obama also expressed U.S. support to India in its bid for a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council.

Stressing that both India and the United States are committed to working together "to address our interests in the Asia-Pacific, " President Obama said: "We will jointly develop defense technologies."

On trade relations between the two countries, the U.S. president said, "It has increased by over 60 percent, but we want to trade more."

"We are also launching a new joint program to improve air quality in Indian cities," he added.

Obama, who will attend the Republic Day celebrations on Monday, is the first U.S. president to visit India twice during his tenure. Endi