New Delhi: 96-year-old Henry Kissinger, who was the US Secretary of State at the time of the Bangladesh crisis in 1971, has given a big statement on the relationship between India and America. He said that the relationship between the two countries has its roots in the 1971 Bangladesh crisis. After this, both countries had similar views on the main issues like security and economy, despite having opposite views on many issues. On Monday at the Indo-US Strategic Partnership Forum, Kissinger said the Bangladesh crisis had brought the two countries on the path of confrontation.

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In 1971, there was a war between India and Pakistan over this crisis. In December 1971, a seventh fleet of the US Navy was sent to the Bay of Bengal to protect the American citizens present in Bangladesh (East Pakistan before the war), which made India feel threatened. Kissinger said that the perceptions of India and America were different at that time of the Cold War. During the Berlin Crisis in 1961, the then Soviet Union gave the Allied forces of America an ultimatum to move out of Berlin.

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Then, Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, did not support the Americans, a move that frustrated the American government. Kissinger said that we came out of the opposite view on the Bangladesh crisis and established a belief for basic development. We have now reached a position where India and America have common interests on many of these issues. He said that the views of the two countries are the same on important issues like security and economic development. In recent times, relations between India and America have been intensified.

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