Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday embarked on a visit to the United States where he will be meeting President Donald Trump after wrapping his three-day visit to France.
PM Modi is scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with President Trump in both restricted and delegation-level formats.
Modi will be the fourth foreign leader to visit Trump in the weeks after the American leader’s January 20 inauguration as the 47th President of the US in January. Prime Minister Modi left for the US after wrapping up his France visit that included co-chairing a summit on Artificial Intelligence and bilateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on trade, defence and energy. President Macron came to see off Modi at the airport in Marseille.
In yet another special gesture, French President Emmanuel Macron comes to the Marseille airport to see off PM Narendra Modi as he emplanes for Washington, US. pic.twitter.com/e5SQpvAP65
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During the US trip, the prime minister will hold six bilateral meetings during his 36-hour visit to the US. He will be staying at Blair House, the US Presidential guest house which is right across the road from the White House.
PM Modi will also be holding a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House at 4 pm on Thursday. A range of bilateral issues are expected to be on the table besides, besides discussions on regional and international situation.
The Trump-Modi meeting will be followed by a private dinner with the US president later in the evening. The two leaders will address the media in the Oval Office before or after the meeting.
PM Modi will be the fourth head of state to meet Trump in less than a month after the Republican President took oath for a second term. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was the first to visit US, followed by Japan’s Shigeru Ishiba.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II visited the US on Tuesday after Trump threatened to cut off aid if Amman didn’t accommodate Palestinians from Gaza before its proposed US rebuilding.
This will be Modi’s first visit since the inauguration of the second presidential term of Trump on January 20. Modi’s visit will provide a valuable opportunity to engage the new administration in all areas of mutual interest, senior officials said.
The prime minister’s visit to the US at the invitation of President Trump shows the importance of the India-US partnership and is also reflective of the bipartisan support that this partnership enjoys in the US, Foreign Secretary said Vikram Misri said here in a briefing on February 7.
