Transcript of PM’s onboard media interaction during return from Male, November 12, 2011

'I have said that Pakistan needs to act with resolve and urgency and cooperate fully and transparently. That message has been delivered and will be delivered to Pakistan'

The US foreign secretary gushed about the Indo-USA nuclear deal and the possibility of working together but let fly a barb on the irrelevance of NAM. The MEA says India remains committed to the ideals of NAM.

'It's good for America, it's good for India and it's good for the international community,' argued the US Secretary of State and strongly argued that "this initiative does not complicate [US] policies toward countries like North Korea or Iran.'

So said the US SoS and while the EAM got a 30 minute audience with Prez Bush, crucial support on the UNSC seat still remains elusive apart from pleasantries about India's 'growing influence in international politics and in international organizations

The EAM's over-eagerness to report on what he had reported to the US SoS on Indo-Pak relations did stand out among the rest of the laundry list on F-16s, NSSP, Nepal, UNSC seat for India and so on, while the differences on Iran gas pipe line were cle

US National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice briefing the press on the Bush-Putin summit retreat.