一位美国高级官员表示，印美关系已在能源、国防和外交等领域全面拓展。这一表态显示出华盛顿对印度和南亚的关注度日益提升，超越了以往危机驱动式的接触模式。
A senior US official said India-US ties have widened across energy, defence and diplomacy. The remarks signal Washington's growing focus on India and South Asia beyond crisis-driven engagement.
一位美国高级官员表示，过去一年印美关系显著扩展，随着新德里寻求多元化能源来源，美国已成为印度的关键能源供应国。
India-US ties have expanded significantly over the past year, with the United States emerging as a key energy supplier to India as New Delhi looks to diversify its sources, a senior US official has said.
美国国务院副助理国务卿贝萨尼·莫里森周四在纽约外国记者中心的圆桌会议上发言时表示，双边关系现已涵盖能源、国防、商业合作和多边接触等领域，而南亚已成为特朗普政府的重大优先事项。
Speaking at a roundtable at the New York Foreign Press Centre on Thursday, US Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary Bethany Morrison said the relationship now covers energy, defence, commercial cooperation and multilateral engagement, while South Asia has become a major priority for the Trump administration.
莫里森表示：“当你审视印度时，仅在过去一年里，美印伙伴关系的规模和广度就比去年有了增长。”她指出，印美之间为期10年的国防框架协议，以及能源领域的新举措，都是伙伴关系不断拓宽的例证。
"When you look at India, just over the last year with the US-India partnership, the scale and breadth of that relationship has grown from last year," Morrison said. She pointed to the 10-year defence framework agreement between India and the US, along with new steps in the energy sector, as examples of the widening partnership.
她还提到了民用核能合作，表示：“印度20年来首次通过了《SHANTI法案》，改革了其核监管环境，现在我们正在民用核能合作方面推进一些真正令人振奋的进展。”在能源关系方面，她说：“我们现在非常自豪地成为印度最大的液化石油气（LPG）出口国，因此当我们谈论多元化能源来源时，很高兴美国正成为这一供应方。”
She also referred to civil nuclear cooperation, saying, "India for the first time in 20 years reformed their nuclear regulatory environment by passing the SHANTI Act, and now we're moving forward on some really exciting developments in civil nuclear cooperation." On energy ties, she said, "We're now very proudly the largest exporter of LPG to India, so when we talk about diversifying energy sources, we are happy that the United States is now becoming that provider." Morrison said cooperation between the two countries ranged from energy and major commercial deals to defence engagement and multilateral diplomatic meetings such as the Quad. She also said the broader South Asian region had become a major focus for the Trump administration. "We're very, very excited about that. It's often a region that historically gets overlooked until there's a crisis because of all – everything else happening in the world, from what's happening in Latin America to Africa to the Middle East, and then obviously land wars in Europe," she said.
莫里森表示，两国合作范围涵盖能源、重大商业交易、防务接触以及“四方安全对话”（Quad）等多边外交会议。她还表示，更广泛的南亚地区已成为特朗普政府的重点关注对象。“我们对此非常、非常兴奋。由于世界各地发生的一切——从拉丁美洲到非洲、中东，再到欧洲的陆地战争——这一地区在历史上往往被忽视，直到出现危机，”她说。
She added, "But really, we see South Asia as such a critical sort of part of the world that really has not gotten enough attention, and that's where President Trump has really made sure that he has advised us to do." Morrison's remarks underlined the wider growth in India-US ties across energy, defence, commercial links and regional engagement.
她补充道：“但我们确实认为南亚是世界如此关键的一部分，却长期未得到足够重视，而这正是特朗普总统确保建议我们重点关注的地方。”莫里森的言论凸显了印美关系在能源、防务、商业联系和区域接触等方面的全面增长。PTI供稿
With PTI Inputs