Marco Rubio on India: America और Bharat के रिश्ते पर क्या बोले मार्को रुबियो? | India US Relations

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Thank you. Thank Well, Sergio, let me just say this. I don't We have great ambassadors everywhere, all over the world, but I don't know anyone who's a better event producer of all of our ambassadors and what Sergio's put on here today. And we're not we're only we're not even halfway through the evening. Serge, this is a great event in honor of the 250 years of our country.

[00:00:18]And I want to thank you. Not only are you doing a great job tonight, but Sergio and his team here at the US Embassy are doing a phenomenal job every single day. And one of the most important relationships we have in the world. Thank you, Sergio. And thank you to our embassy team and everybody that works on it every single day.

[00:00:34]I also want to thank uh all of our friends from the diplomatic corps, various countries, so many that are here today representing your countries. We're honored and we're grateful that you would be here today to recognize the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. We're very grateful that all of you are here. Thank you for coming. It's an honor to share this evening with all of you. It's a it's a true privilege and and obviously I would be remiss if I did not thank both the the welcome and the hospitality that we've gotten from everybody here in India and all of your government leaders and in particularly the the foreign minister who's become someone I've gotten to know very well. In fact, and I say this, you maybe you've heard me say this before, but let me say it just one more time and then the story gets old.

[00:01:13]When I became Secretary of State, I was sworn in like at noon or 11:00 a.m. that morning after the inauguration. I immediately went over to the state department and the first meeting I ever had w with uh among the was with a group of the four countries known as the Quad and and one of the people that I met on that very first day and I've interacted with so many times is foreign minister Z Shankar and and he's been phenomenal. He's a truly wise gentleman and incredible does incredible work on behalf of your country and someone that I uh that I have tremendous esteem and respect for. In fact, I told Sergeant when he came here, you I said, "Get to know the the foreign minister because he truly knows what he's talking about in terms of global events." Look, we're honored to be here today to celebrate 250 years of our country and we're very proud of the United States of America. We're very proud of its achievements. There's a lot of things to be proud of about America. The one thing I'm really proud about America is it has served as a beacon of hope, not just around the world, but to individuals. My own pres my own parents were not born in the United States. My own parents came in 1956 to the United States from the island of Cuba. And they came to the one place on earth where people like them would have a chance to truly have a better life. Neither one of my parents were very educated. My father lost his mother when he was 12 or 13 years of age. His parents, he basically was on his own from the time he was 12 or 13.

[00:02:37]Had to find his way in the world. My mother was one of seven sisters raised in rural poverty. and they were married and they were very young when they came to the United States and they achieved amazing things. My parents were never rich people and they were never famous people but they were successful people because not not only were they able to achieve a better life they were able to do the most important thing in the world for them and that is to leave their children better off than themselves to give their children every opportunity in the world to do whatever it is they desire to do. They knew that for them some of their personal dreams may not be achievable, but they wanted to make sure that for their children there were no limits.

[00:03:13]They wanted to make sure that and the I we owe that to the United States of America. So, we're extraordinarily proud of our country and of its history. By the same token, we're also proud because we know that so much of what we've achieved in our history has been built in partnership with other countries around the world with which we share so much. And one of those relationships that I'm so excited about going into the 21st century given the challenges and the opportunities of this new era is India. It's one of those countries that I know that we have this very valuable strategic partnership with and we share so many values and so many common interests. And so obviously I try to get around the world. I will try to go to other celebrations of our 250th birthday in different parts of the world.

[00:03:58]Although I doubt any will have a production like this one, but I want you to know that part of my visit here is also to reinforce how important this relationship is, how exciting it is, and how many opportunities we have to do things together. If I think about all of the key issues and all of the key opportunities of the modern economy, India and the United States together are perfectly positioned are perfectly positioned to work together on these issues to achieve a better life for the people of the United States, for the people of India and frankly for the people of other countries working together as well. And so, as much as anything else, this visit is about reinforcing that and of course celebrating 250 years as a nation. And I want to thank every single one of you how special it is that you would share it with us here this evening. There's more entertainment to follow. There's more fun to happen. I unfortunately will not be able to perform tonight because my contract with Sony does not allow me to perform an unsanctioned events. Uh but if you come to our 251st birthday, you never know. But uh but for our 250, I just can't do it contractually. But um anyway, all kidding aside, thank you all very much. It's an honor to be with all of you. And let me just say thank you to India for welcoming us and may God always bless America.