Date:
17 November 2008
Author(s):
Mark Webber (South and Central Asian Affairs), Jorgan Andrews
(South and Central Asian Affairs), Anish Goel (South and Central Asian Affairs), Trish Mahoney (South and Central Asian Affairs)
Classification Level:
Secret
Citation:
National Security Council. Executive Office of the President. India.
Jorgan Andrews, Anish Goel, Trish Mahoney and Mark Webber. Transition 6559
Transition Memo:
Transition 6559 – India
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Chronology for India
Chronology for Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative
Speech by Candidate George W. Bush (November 19, 1999)
Memorandum of Conversation with Prime Minister Vajpayee (November 9, 2001)
Summary of Conclusions of Deputies Committee Meeting on India and India-
Pakistan Nuclear Issues (July 18, 2001
U.S.-India Joint Statement (November 9, 2001)
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Date: 17 November 2008 (assumed released with transition memo)
Author(s): National Security Council (assumed)
Description: Timeline charts chronology of U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation,
citing important visits, initiatives, hearings, and other occurrences. Tabs within
transition memo are listed at appropriate points.
Date: 22 September 2001
Author(s): George W. Bush (memo)
Description: Bush waives India and Pakistan from some sanctions included in the
Arms Export Control Act, the Export Import Bank Act of 1945, and the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961.
Date: 19 November 1999
Author(s): George W. Bush (speech)
Description: Speech discusses wide range of foreign policy topics, most
significantly the need to support Asian democracy against Chinese repression, to reform aid to Russia, and to propel America forward on a transformative foreign policy vision rather than becoming isolationist or drifting from crisis to crisis. Speech labels India a rising democracy with enormous economic potential that the U.S. ought to cooperate closer with.
Date: 9 November 2001
Author(s): George W. Bush
Atal Behari Vajpayee (Prime Minister of the Republic of India)
Description: President Bush and Secretaries Paulsen and Powell discuss a range of topics with Indian leadership. The Indian delegation expresses its support for
Afghanistan and the U.S. and Indian leaders pledge cooperation on counterterrorism and democracy support. The leaders also discuss U.S.-Indian
economic ties and the state of their countries’ economies. Finally, the leaders extensively discuss China, with the Indians arguing that China has dangerous,
expansionist tendencies, and the U.S. leaders explaining their approach to working with China and other regional allies.
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Presidential Determination Waiving Sanctions on India and Pakistan (September
22, 2001)
Date: 9 November 2001
Author(s): Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of India
Description: President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee express that the U.S. and India stand united against terrorism and in defense of international peace and democracy. Bush and Vajpayee agree to share intelligence, consult regularly on Afghanistan, and to continue bilateral cooperation on counterterrorism.
Presidential Statement on Strategic Partnership with India (January 12, 2004)
Information Memorandum on the India Elections (May 14, 2004)
Memorandum of Conversation with Indian Prime Minister Singh (September 21,
2004)
U.S.-India Joint Statement on Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (September 17,
2004)
Memorandum of Conversation with Indian Prime Minister Singh (July 18, 2005)
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Date: 12 January 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush (statement)
Description: Bush expresses satisfaction with the U.S.-India strategic partnership and announces the next steps toward cooperation. Among future areas of cooperation are missile defense, high-technology trade, and civilian nuclear power. Proposed cooperation will progress through reciprocal, building steps.
Memorandum of Conversation with Indian Prime Minister Singh (March 2,
2006)
Date: 7 May 2007
Author(s): George W. Bush, Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister of the Republic of India)
Brian Sollom, Jessica Rowell, Michael Eaton (notetakers)
Description: Bush states the importance of furthering progress on the U.S.-Indian
nuclear cooperation deal, resolving India’s defense relationship with Iran,
supporting climate change action, and finishing the Doha free trade talks. Prime
Minister Singh agrees with Bush on all of these points.
U.S.-India Joint Statement (March 2, 2006)
Date: 2 March 2006
Author(s): George W. Bush, Elisabeth Millard (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for South and Central Asian Affairs, NSC) (notetaker), Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister of the Republic of India)
Description: President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Singh discuss the results
of their earlier, more private meeting. The two leaders laud their shared
commitment to free trade, counterterrorism, modernization of India, technological
cooperation, and the recent civ-nuclear pact. The two leaders discuss clean
alternatives to oil as a means of increasing trade extensively. The two also discuss
potentially deploying Indian peacekeepers to Darfur and stopping Chinese
funding of anti-Indian insurgents in Burma.
Date: 2 March 2006
Author(s): Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of
India
Description: President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reaffirm
commitment to U.S.-India cooperation and express desire to expand cooperation
on a variety of fronts. Intended areas of cooperation include deepening business
ties, expanding trade, increasing agricultural cooperation, increasing civil nuclear
power ties, more closely integrating space programs, working together on
counterterrorism, and expanding democracy promotion efforts.
Date: 18 July 2005
Author(s): George W. Bush, Mike Green (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs, NSC) (notetaker)
Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister of the Republic of India)
Description: President Bush and Indian leaders touch on a range of subjects
quickly. The leaders discuss policy towards Afghanistan (including Pakistan’s
involvement supporting and opposing the Taliban); free trade agreements;
Chinese relations; and policy towards India’s neighbors of Myanmar, Bangladesh,
and Nepal.
Date: 21 September 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush, Michael Green (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asian Affairs, NSC) (notetaker), Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister of the Republic of India)
Description: U.S. and Indian leaders discuss a range of subjects. The leaders first celebrate diplomatic progress between each other and between India and Pakistan,
and the leaders also express solidarity in the War on Terror. Bush implores the Indian leadership to work with the Pakistanis and expresses that he will communicate to Pakistani Prime Minister Musharraf that the current Indian government is open to negotiations. The leaders discuss economic and trade issues and talk about policy towards China. The conversation ends with Bush discussing the next steps of the U.S.’s crackdown on the A.Q. Khan nuclear network.
Date: 17 September 2004
Author(s): Adam Ereli (Deputy Spokesman, White House, Office of the Press Secretary) (also Bush and Vajpayee?)
Description: President Bush and Prime Minister Vajpayee state that phase one of the plan laid out in (Tab 9) has been completed. The plan, this document clarifies, is called Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP). Phase one addressed American proliferation concerns and export laws related to nuclear power and the Indian space program. The U.S. and India express intent to continue forward
under the NSSP.
Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
(May 7, 2007)
Summary of Conclusions of Principals Committee Meeting on India and Pakistan
(May 7, 2002)
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