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All sanctions against India should go: Wisner

All sanctions imposed on India by the United States after the nuclear tests in 1998 should be removed to achieve a fully "normal" relationship with New Delhi, former US Ambassador to India Frank Wisner has said.

"There are some commitments that we have not been able to fulfill during my tenure. We have led the fight to remove sanctions imposed against India after May 1998, and we have enjoyed important success," he told the US India Business Council.

"But we have not removed the legislation that imposed the sanctions in the first place. Nor have we gotten far in removing the myriad of export controls and other restrictions on technology transfer, cooperation on nuclear safety, and space research," Wisner, the outgoing chairman of the USIBC, said.

He said "we need to redouble our efforts to achieve, first, a fully normal relationship with India, then a special relationship that reflects our potential as natural allies."

On Indo-Pak tension, Wisner said he was pleased to note that US diplomacy was beginning to succeed in bringing the South Asia region back from the brink of war.

"The Government of Pakistan has now committed itself to ending infiltration permanently and closing the training camps," he said.

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