"With India, we will build on the close partnership developed over the past decade. As two of the world's great, multi-ethnic democracies, the US and India are natural strategic allies, and we must work together to advance our common interests and to combat the common threats," the Draft Platform approved by the Committee has said.

The document now goes to the Convention Floor in Denver to be approved by the delegates.

"We believe it is in the United States' interest that all of these emerging powers and others assume a greater stake in promoting international peace and respect for human rights, including through their more constructive participation in key global institutions," the Platform Committee agreed upon in Pittsburgh.

"We are committed to US engagement in Asia. This begins with maintaining strong relationships with allies like Japan, Australia, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines and deepening our ties to vital democratic partners like India, in order to create a stable and prosperous Asia," the Draft documents says.

"We must also forge a more effective framework in Asia that goes beyond bilateral agreements, occasional summits, and ad hoc diplomatic arrangements. We need an open and inclusive infrastructure with the countries in Asia that can promote stability, prosperity and human rights, and help confront transnational threats," it added.

The democrats have argued that while the threats confronting America and the world would have to be met head-on, it would have to be through a tough, smart and principled national security strategy.

"It is a strategy that recognises that we have interests not just in Baghdad, but in Kandahar and Karachi, in Beijing, Berlin, Brasilia and Bamako. It is a strategy that contends with the many disparate forces shaping this century, including: the fundamentalist challenge to freedom; the emergence of new powers like China, India, Russia and a united Europe...," the Draft said.

It said that as President Obama will focus this strategy on seven goals that includes ending the war in Iraq, defeating al-Qaeda, combating violent extremism and working on the issue of climate change.

"We need a global response to climate change that includes binding and enforceable commitments to reducing emissions, especially for those that pollute the most: the US, China, India, the European Union and Russia," it said.

The document covers nearly every facet of domestic and international policy that a candidate would have to grapple with including some of the contentious issues on the economic front such as outsourcing of jobs.