President Joe Biden meets PM Narendra Modi forward of the Quad Summit
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi right now met US President Joe Biden on the margins of the Quad summit. PM Modi was welcomed by Mr Biden at his residence, the place the 2 leaders hugged one another. Mr Biden held PM Modi’s hand as he led him into the home.
“The US’ partnership with India is stronger, nearer, and extra dynamic than any time in historical past. Prime Minister Modi, every time we sit down, I am struck by our capability to search out new areas of cooperation. At this time was no totally different,” President Biden mentioned in a put up on X.
The US’ partnership with India is stronger, nearer, and extra dynamic than any time in historical past.
Prime Minister Modi, every time we sit down, I am struck by our capability to search out new areas of cooperation. At this time was no totally different. pic.twitter.com/TdcIpF23mV
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 21, 2024
PM Modi’s US go to is accompanied by Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri and Ambassador of India to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra. The US crew included Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Assistant to the President for Nationwide Safety Affairs TH Jake Sullivan and Ambassador of the US to India Eric Garcetti.
PM Modi, who’s on a three-day go to, will even maintain separate bilateral conferences with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who’re within the US for the Quad Summit.
The annual Quad summit being hosted by President Biden in his hometown Wilmington is anticipated to roll out a collection of latest initiatives to spice up cooperation within the Indo-Pacific and discover methods to search out peaceable options to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
The four-member Quad, or the Quadrilateral Safety Dialogue, advocates upholding a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific. Beijing sees it as an anti-China grouping.
In his departure assertion in New Delhi, PM Modi mentioned he seemed ahead to becoming a member of his colleagues President Biden, Prime Minister Albanese and Prime Minister Kishida for the Quad Summit.
“The discussion board has emerged as a key group of like-minded international locations to work for peace, progress and prosperity within the Indo-Pacific area,” he added.