US Ambassador to New Delhi Eric Garcetti praised India’s progress and developmental journey, and said if people want to “see” and “feel the future”, they should come to the country.

Underlining this point at an event, he also mentioned his “great privilege” of being future-ready because of his position as the leader of the United States’s mission.

“If you want to see the future, come to India. If you want to feel the future, come to India. If you want to work on the future, come to India. I have the great privilege of being able to do that every single day as the leader of the US Mission,” he said.

US National Security Advisor(NSA) Jake Sullivan also commended the country’s ties with India, saying the partnership has “gone to new heights”.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Sulivan said, “The partnership between the US and India, a country in BRICs, has gone to new heights with an engagement across technology and security and so many other dimensions.”

Garcetti also talked about the time he spent in India as a child and said his “deep emotional connection” with India never left his soul.

Reiterating US President Joe Biden’s message for the ties between the two countries, he said the President told him that India “was the most important country in the world” and that Washington’s ties with New Delhi were “the most consequential” for shaping the world order in this century.

Garcetti said the ties between the US and India as “not an additive relationship but a multiplicative relationship” between the world’s two largest democracies.