US Consul General addresses students at IIM Indore

He also inaugurated America Days- a three-day event highlighting US culture, traditions, politics, and education, at the Devi Ahilya University Auditoriumin Indore.
On the occasion, Mr Owen, highlighted all the active and broad ranged set of areas on which India and the US are currently cooperating. According to Mr Owen, A marked endorsement of closer people-to-people contact as a primary driver of relationship into the future along with reinvigoration of the already well established economic ties between the two largest democracies in the world.

In his talk, themes like Information Technology, Defense Equipments and Technology, Tourism, International Diplomatic relations, Private Education, Economics, Cultural contacts etc all found their way into the talk accompanied by an account of activities currently undertaken on each of these fronts.

Amongst the many basic characteristics common to the two nations, Mr. Owen expressed his belief that shared ideals like the sanctity of education, a drive to excel, respect for diversity, Belief in the larger good for all should form a robust and strong basis for the progress of the two countries into the future which must see them with a common resolve to rid humanity of troubles like terrorism, poverty, illiteracy and extremist attitudes.

Students present on the occasion were also curious to know regarding policy options for the US in the wake of a fast rising China and a perceptible loss of US pre-eminence in the emerging world order, the Consul General affirmed US commitment to a free and fair world trade order adding further that a many engines for the world economy instead of just one or two is a favorable state of events.

In his closing remarks, Consul General re-affirmed the belief in the common vision of India and US and invoked an inspiration in all present to contribute at their personal level as well as an institution to the furtherance of the mutually beneficial relations between India and the US and transform the basis of it to an evolved mutual understanding of values and attitudes upheld by the society and people of the two countries.