Obama Speaks On India Visit -- Wall Street Journal
A day after his party suffered a huge setback at the polls in the U.S. midterm congressional elections, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke about his upcoming visit to India, telling the Press Trust of India wire service that issues such as India’s bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council and its desire for the U.S. to relax export controls on dual-use technologies are “very difficult and complicated.”
The president’s comments about the UNSC will throw a bit of cold water on speculation that the president was planning to use the trip to announce U.S. backing for India’s permanent presence on the panel and may be discouraging to the foreign policy establishment in New Delhi.
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