Description
Eric Garcetti was officially sworn in as the US ambassador to India on March 24. US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti will lead an ambitious effort to deepen US cooperation with India, including in the economic and defense sectors, according to the White House. Garcetti, a former mayor of Los Angeles, was officially sworn in as the US ambassador to India on March 24 by Vice President Kamala Harris in a ceremony here.
The US Senate confirmed the 52-year-old Garcetti's nomination early last month, ending a protracted hiatus of more than two years for the key diplomatic post.
Garcetti's nomination had been pending before the US Congress since July 2021, when he was nominated by President Joe Biden.
"The president said that when we look at the relationship with India, it's one of the most important relationships that the United States has in the world. That still stands," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. journalists during his daily press conference.
"Ambassador Garcetti will lead an ambitious effort to deepen our cooperation with India on critical and emerging technologies, expand our defense cooperation, and strengthen our economic and people-to-people ties," Jean-Pierre said.
It is one of the most important relationships the United States has in the world, he said.
"So it's an important relationship that the president sees," Jean-Pierre told reporters.
Garcetti, who will now travel to New Delhi this month, was not confirmed by the Senate in President Biden's first two years in office, and some lawmakers are concerned that he has not adequately addressed allegations of sexual assault and harassment against a former aide. major.
President Biden reappointed him to the same position in January of this year.
Garcetti's supporters argued that geopolitical concerns were too great to leave India without an ambassador.
The US Embassy in India has been without an ambassador since January 2021, the longest period in the history of US-India relations that the post has been vacant since Kenneth Juster, the last envoy from USA to New Delhi, resigned after the change of government in America.
