India-US Aviation Partnership Summit takes-off

New Delhi: A three-day India-US Aviation Partnership Summit was inaugurated by the Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel, here today. Also present at the inauguration were the Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Ms. Marion Blakey, the Secretary, Civil Aviation, Shri Ashok Chawla and the Deputy Director of the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Ms. Leocadia Zak. The objective of the Summit is to encourage high level discussions between the US and the Indian Aviation Sectors regarding Industry growth challenges. It is expected to help in building long term strategy and commercial relationship between the two countries to address important issues like air traffic management, air-space utilization and commercial collaborations in new airborne systems. The Summit is designed to promote trade, shared technical managerial and strategic planning approaches to adept integrated automatic air traffic control and management systems focusing on safety, capacity, efficiency and security for future air transport systems.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also initialed at the inaugural of the Summit today. It was signed by the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Shri R.K. Singh and Deputy Director, USTDA, Ms. Leocadia Zak on behalf of the Indian and US Governments respectively.
23/04/07 Press Information Bureau (press release)

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Categories: Foreign Apr 2007, General Aviation Apr 2007