Naeem Khan, Michelle Obama State dinner dress, First lady wears Naeem Khan gown to state dinner.
First lady Michelle Obama chose to wear a gleaming silver-sequined, cream-colored gown Tuesday night to the first state dinner held by her husband’s administration. She was tending to her hostess duties in a strapless silhouette with the beads forming an abstract floral pattern that was custom-made by Naeem Khan.
She wore a matching wrap, a stack of bangle bracelets on her wrist and dangling earrings.
Noting that there was growing “convergence” in national interests of India and the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the two countries “must work together” to effectively tackle the multiple challenges confronting the world.
“The India-US partnership can promote global cooperation in dealing with issues that the world has to face together, whether it is hunger, global security and terrorism, nuclear disarmament, climate change or spread of pandemics,” he said.
Singh said he saw the future of the India-US partnership with “confidence and optimism”. “There is a growing convergence in our national interests, both within bilateral framework and on regional and global issues,” the Prime Minister said in his address to the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington-based think tank.
The changes in global economic and political structures and the growing interdependence among nations today offer the two countries an opportunity to look beyond bilateral engagement “to establish a strategic partnership of global dimensions,” he said in the presence of city’s top intellectuals.
“If we are to effectively tackle the multiple challenges that confront the world, India and the United States, as two leading democracies, must work together,” he asserted, adding the immediate challenge before the two countries is to bring the world to full recovery from global economic crisis.
The Prime Minister noted that India and the US have strong compulsions to work towards an open and liberal regime for transfers of goods, services, investments and technology. This will stimulate recovery in the global economy, create jobs and spur growth in their economies, he said. Singh said India and the US can work together with other countries in the region to create an open and inclusive regional architecture in the Asia-Pacific.
was first posted on November 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm.
