Dr. Rice is one of three top hitters of the Bush administration making their way into the US Chamber of Commerce Building near the White House on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON: Expected to dwell at the opportunities and challenges in the bilateral relationship, the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be making an address to the United States India Business Council to mark the organisation's 32nd Anniversary.
Dr. Rice is one of three top hitters of the Bush administration making their way into the US Chamber of Commerce Building near the White House on Wednesday, the two others being the Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and the US Trade Representative Susan Schwab.
The senior administration officials are expected to talk about the progress in the bilateral relationship that has added significant width and depth in the last few years starting with the second term of the Clinton administration.
Rice's keynote address will be on "Uniting Two Great Democracies for 21st century".
The USIBC will also be hearing from India's Minister for Commerce Kamal Nath who is scheduled to have a media interaction on Thursday.
The Council that has as its members the top of the American industry and business will also be honouring the head of the Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani and the Boeing Chief James McNerney with Leadership Awards for "Global Vision".
The USIBC Summit got off to a grand start yesterday evening with a dinner at the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts that featured a Sarod recital by Maestro Amjad Ali Khan accompanied by his sons Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan.
The USIBC, a premier advocacy organization, promotes economic reforms to strengthen trade relations and broaden commercial ties between the two countries.
"USIBC formulates an annual work plan that targets specific issues important to its 250 member-companies and prepares representations to advance sector-specific reforms in India," council president Ron Somers has said in the statement.
Toward this, USIBC has partnered with premier Indian business organizations like the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the American Chamber of Commerce in India (AmCham India), National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), and the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC).
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