Condemning cross - border terrorism targeting India, US Ambassador Richard Verma on Wednesday said the Indo - US ties are on a different plane compared to Washington's "complex" relationship with Pakistan where the focus was on "counter - terrorism".
"We have always maintained that cross - border terrorism has to end, and the perpetrators needed to be held accountable, " Verma told media persons here to a query on the export of terrorism from Pakistan to India.
"Our relationship with Pakistan is complex, based on counter - terrorism.
With India it is on a different plane, " the ambassador said at the Press Club here.
Iterating that the Indo - US bilateral relations haveA been at their best over the past two years, he said: "We have relied on each other like never before (during this period). "
US has emerged as India's largest trade partner with the two - way trade touching $110 billion, with the two countries now setting a target to increase to $500 billion.
"There are only a couple of countries which are both our strategic and commercial partners.
India is one of them, " he said.
The final agreement for the India - US Civil Nuclear Deal will be inked next year, while clean energy and climate as emerged as a single most important area of copperation between the two countries.
"The US and India, the world's to largest democracies, represent 1. 6 billion people.
if US and India remain good partners, the world will be safe and prosperous, " he said.
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