‘Malabar 2005’: Exercise of Indian and U.S. navies
• ‘Malabar 2005’: Annual exercise of Indian and U.S. navies. INS Viraat, INS Godavari and USS Nimitz during ‘Malabar 2005’, off the west coast of India.
• Malabar 2005, the annual bilateral naval exercise by the Indian Navy and the U.S. Navy was held from September 25 to October 4 off the west coast of India. The ships that participated in the exercise were: USS Nimitz and INS Viraat (both aircraft carriers); USS Higgins, USS Chaffe, INS Mumbai and INS Godavari (all destroyers); 1 X SSN (U.S. nuclear submarine) and INS Shankul (submarine); the 1 X P3C Orion (operating from Goa) and INS Aditya (tanker).
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 15.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE VISIT: • Launch of U.N. Democracy Fund ● Meetings with Presidents George Bush, Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao and Pervez Musharraf ● India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum
• External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh meets U.S. Secretary of State Rice; Foreign Ministers of Russia and China in New York
• Finance Minister Chidamabaram attends the World Bank-IMF annual meetings in Washington, D.C.
• Commerce Minister Kamal Nath at the ‘Focus India Show’ in Chicago; opens India Engineering Centre
• India dispatches relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina; donates $5 mn. to American Red Cross
• ‘World awaits a New Deal that can spur development’. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh at the U.N. General Assembly on September 15. Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran also joined .
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Russian President Vladimir Putin, at their meeting on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York. the Prime Minister also met Chinese President Hu Jintao.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with chief executive officers (CEOs) of top American corporations after a lunch he hosted for them at the New York Palace Hotel in New York on Sept. 14. Also joined are Ambassador Ronen Sen, and External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh.
• PM reiterates firm stand against proliferation at meeting with President Bush.
• Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said the India-U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation agreement was reviewed at the meeting and he quoted the U.S. president as saying that he remained “fully committed” to the agreement.
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh, left, with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at their meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on September 19.
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s speech, titled ‘The Argument for India’, at Brown University in New York on September 23.
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s address at the G-77 Ministerial Meeting in New York on September 22.
• Indian, China, Russia to hold trilateral Business Conference
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh, met with his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lvavrov, at the Chinese Permanent Mission in New York on September 20.
• Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, met with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow during the Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., on September 24. Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen also joined.
• Finance Minister P. Chidambaram with Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors, on September 23.
• the 2005 Trumbull Lecture by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, at the Sheffield-Sterling Strathcona Hall at Yale University, on September 22. The lecture was titled ‘U.S.-India Economic Relations and the Evolving World Economy.
• Aircraft carrying relief materials lands at Little Rock base.
• An Indian Air Force (IAF) IL-76 aircraft delivered 25 tonnes of relief supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, on September 13. The relief supplies comprised 3,000 blankets, bed sheets, tarpaulins and items of personal hygiene. Brig. General Kip Self, Station Commander of the Air Force Base, received the IL-76 aircraft. The aircraft took off from Palam airport, New Delhi, on September 10 and reached the U.S. via Muscat, Cairo, Lisbon, Lajes and Boston. The aircraft returned to India on September 17.
• Ambassador Ronen Sen hands over a cheque for $5 million to Marsha Evans, President and CEO of the American Red Cross, on September 8.
• Ambassador Ronen Sen with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson on September6 . Ambassador Sen conveyed India’s sympathy for those rendered homeless by • Hurricane Katrina. He also invited Jackson to visit India.
• Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath Minister addressing U.S. small and medium investors at the ‘Focus India Show’ in Chicago on September 27.
• Kamal Nath opens India Engineering Centre in Chicago
• The Indian Embassy hosted on September 2 a reception in honour of ‘DANCelebration 2005’, organised in Washington, D.C., area by the Indian Dance Educators Association (IDEA). The Indian Council for Cultural Relations sponsored participation of a group led by noted Odissi dancer Madhavi Mudgal in the Festival. Ambassador R.S. Jassal (Deputy Chief of Mission); Dr. Smita Tewari Jassal; Sudha Mallik; Madhavi Mudgal; Anuradha Nehru, President IDEA; Arushi Mudgal; Moumita Ghosh; Sukanya Mukherji of IDEA; Diya Sen; Mrs. Kalpana Sen, spouse of Ambassador Ronen Sen; and Gautam Bhattacharya joined.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed a press conference in New York on September 16, before his return to New Delhi after attending the 60th session of the United National General Assembly.
KEY MESSAGES
• "Unfortunately, the United Nations suffers from a democracy deficit. Its structure and decision-making process reflect the world of 1945, not of 2005. Unless it becomes an organisation more representative of the contemporary world and more relevant to our concerns and aspirations, its ability to deliver on the Millennium Development Goals, indeed on its charter obligations, will continue to be limited."
• "Democracy is a powerful ideal, but its successful exercise requires strong and enduring institutions, laws and procedures and the development of a parliamentary culture, whose essence is the accountability of those in authority to the ordinary citizens of the country."
• "We believe that democracy based on universal adult suffrage empowers the most humble citizen of our country and gives him a sense of dignity. Poverty, illiteracy or socioeconomic backwardness do not hinder the exercise of democracy."
• Malabar 2005, the annual bilateral naval exercise by the Indian Navy and the U.S. Navy was held from September 25 to October 4 off the west coast of India. The ships that participated in the exercise were: USS Nimitz and INS Viraat (both aircraft carriers); USS Higgins, USS Chaffe, INS Mumbai and INS Godavari (all destroyers); 1 X SSN (U.S. nuclear submarine) and INS Shankul (submarine); the 1 X P3C Orion (operating from Goa) and INS Aditya (tanker).
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 15.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE VISIT: • Launch of U.N. Democracy Fund ● Meetings with Presidents George Bush, Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao and Pervez Musharraf ● India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum
• External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh meets U.S. Secretary of State Rice; Foreign Ministers of Russia and China in New York
• Finance Minister Chidamabaram attends the World Bank-IMF annual meetings in Washington, D.C.
• Commerce Minister Kamal Nath at the ‘Focus India Show’ in Chicago; opens India Engineering Centre
• India dispatches relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina; donates $5 mn. to American Red Cross
• ‘World awaits a New Deal that can spur development’. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh at the U.N. General Assembly on September 15. Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran also joined .
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Russian President Vladimir Putin, at their meeting on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York. the Prime Minister also met Chinese President Hu Jintao.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with chief executive officers (CEOs) of top American corporations after a lunch he hosted for them at the New York Palace Hotel in New York on Sept. 14. Also joined are Ambassador Ronen Sen, and External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh.
• PM reiterates firm stand against proliferation at meeting with President Bush.
• Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said the India-U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation agreement was reviewed at the meeting and he quoted the U.S. president as saying that he remained “fully committed” to the agreement.
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh, left, with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at their meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on September 19.
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s speech, titled ‘The Argument for India’, at Brown University in New York on September 23.
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s address at the G-77 Ministerial Meeting in New York on September 22.
• Indian, China, Russia to hold trilateral Business Conference
• External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh, met with his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lvavrov, at the Chinese Permanent Mission in New York on September 20.
• Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, met with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow during the Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., on September 24. Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen also joined.
• Finance Minister P. Chidambaram with Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors, on September 23.
• the 2005 Trumbull Lecture by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, at the Sheffield-Sterling Strathcona Hall at Yale University, on September 22. The lecture was titled ‘U.S.-India Economic Relations and the Evolving World Economy.
• Aircraft carrying relief materials lands at Little Rock base.
• An Indian Air Force (IAF) IL-76 aircraft delivered 25 tonnes of relief supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, on September 13. The relief supplies comprised 3,000 blankets, bed sheets, tarpaulins and items of personal hygiene. Brig. General Kip Self, Station Commander of the Air Force Base, received the IL-76 aircraft. The aircraft took off from Palam airport, New Delhi, on September 10 and reached the U.S. via Muscat, Cairo, Lisbon, Lajes and Boston. The aircraft returned to India on September 17.
• Ambassador Ronen Sen hands over a cheque for $5 million to Marsha Evans, President and CEO of the American Red Cross, on September 8.
• Ambassador Ronen Sen with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson on September6 . Ambassador Sen conveyed India’s sympathy for those rendered homeless by • Hurricane Katrina. He also invited Jackson to visit India.
• Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath Minister addressing U.S. small and medium investors at the ‘Focus India Show’ in Chicago on September 27.
• Kamal Nath opens India Engineering Centre in Chicago
• The Indian Embassy hosted on September 2 a reception in honour of ‘DANCelebration 2005’, organised in Washington, D.C., area by the Indian Dance Educators Association (IDEA). The Indian Council for Cultural Relations sponsored participation of a group led by noted Odissi dancer Madhavi Mudgal in the Festival. Ambassador R.S. Jassal (Deputy Chief of Mission); Dr. Smita Tewari Jassal; Sudha Mallik; Madhavi Mudgal; Anuradha Nehru, President IDEA; Arushi Mudgal; Moumita Ghosh; Sukanya Mukherji of IDEA; Diya Sen; Mrs. Kalpana Sen, spouse of Ambassador Ronen Sen; and Gautam Bhattacharya joined.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed a press conference in New York on September 16, before his return to New Delhi after attending the 60th session of the United National General Assembly.
KEY MESSAGES
• "Unfortunately, the United Nations suffers from a democracy deficit. Its structure and decision-making process reflect the world of 1945, not of 2005. Unless it becomes an organisation more representative of the contemporary world and more relevant to our concerns and aspirations, its ability to deliver on the Millennium Development Goals, indeed on its charter obligations, will continue to be limited."
• "Democracy is a powerful ideal, but its successful exercise requires strong and enduring institutions, laws and procedures and the development of a parliamentary culture, whose essence is the accountability of those in authority to the ordinary citizens of the country."
• "We believe that democracy based on universal adult suffrage empowers the most humble citizen of our country and gives him a sense of dignity. Poverty, illiteracy or socioeconomic backwardness do not hinder the exercise of democracy."
