On New York visit, India's Modi celebrates cultural ties

Uniondale, New York — 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, continuing a multiday U.S. visit, addressed a taste solemnisation connected Long Island Sunday, wherever helium praised the United States' instrumentality of astir 300 antiquities to India and relayed quality of his country's dual triumph astatine the Chess Olympiad successful Budapest, Hungary, to an enthusiastic crowd.

"I conscionable got immoderate precise bully news," Modi told an estimated 13,000 radical wrong Nassau Veterans Coliseum for an lawsuit billed arsenic a solemnisation of taste ties betwixt India and the United States. "In the Chess Olympiad, successful some the men's and women's tournament, India has won golden medals," helium said to applause successful a code that was translated into English for an online audience.

Modi was reelected successful June pursuing a marathon predetermination successful which much than 640 cardinal votes were formed implicit a span of six weeks successful the world's largest antiauthoritarian exercise.

"This year, 2024, is simply a precise important 1 for the full world," helium said. "On the 1 hand, determination are conflicts raging betwixt respective countries successful the world, determination is tension. And connected the other, ideology is being celebrated successful respective countries of the world. India and America are besides unneurotic successful this solemnisation of democracy."

Modi's quality successful New York came a time aft helium attended a acme hosted by President Joe Biden successful Wilmington, Delaware, for leaders of the alleged Quad that besides included Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan.

Also Saturday, Modi accepted the instrumentality of 297 antiquities spanning thousands of years that had been stolen oregon trafficked from India. The U.S. has returned astir 600 specified taste artifacts to India since 2016, according to India's Ministry of External Affairs.

On Monday, the premier curate is expected to be a United Nations acme successful beforehand of this week's General Assembly.

Sunday's lawsuit was sponsored by the not-for-profit Indo American Community of USA.