Two top former US officials have urged President Barack Obama to endorse India's bid for permanent seat in the UN Security Council. Former Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns also urged the President in a report to remove ISRO from the entities list and stop asking New Delhi to join NPT as a non-nuclear state. Besides the two former US officials, Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Richard Fontaine also contributed to the 16-page report titled 'Natural Allies- A Blueprint for the Future of US-India Relations. The report by two top Bush-era officials said, now is a critical time in this partnership, a moment to transform past bilateral accomplishments into regional and global successes and urged American and Indian leaders to seize it. The report has been endorsed by more than 20 American and Indian experts including former US Ambassador to India Frank Wisner, former Bush Administration officials Karan Bhatia and Susan C Schwab and former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Karl F Inderfurth. It also recommended that the US give concrete meaning to the phrase strategic partnership by deepening relations and strengthening collaboration in a number of areas, including countering terrorism and violent extremism, bolstering the international non-proliferation regime and fostering greater stability, security and economic prosperity in South Asia. They asserted that the US should designate an appropriate senior official at the cabinet level to coordinate export-control issues related to India and take the lead in resolving overlapping regulatory and policy issues.