‘Stronger, closer, more dynamic’: Biden on US-India relationship after meeting with Modi

Modi said successful a station connected X, “I convey President Biden for hosting maine astatine his residence successful Greenville, Delaware. Our talks were highly fruitful. We had the accidental to sermon determination and planetary issues during the meeting.”

The connection said that Modi warmly recalled his State sojourn to the USA successful June 2023 and President Biden’s sojourn to India successful September 2023 for the G-20 Leaders’ Summit. He “noted that the visits person imparted greater dynamism and extent to the India-US partnership”.

The MEA connection said that the 2 leaders discussed ways to further heighten bilateral practice successful areas of communal involvement and exchanged views connected planetary and determination issues, including the Indo-Pacific portion and beyond. “They expressed assurance successful the spot and continuing resilience of the narration and their content successful its value for each areas of quality endeavor betwixt the 2 countries,” it said.

Biden welcomed Modi connected the margins and up of the 6th Quad summit.

After the gathering that lasted astir an hour, Biden said, “The United States’ concern with India is stronger, closer, and much dynamic than immoderate clip successful history. Prime Minister Modi, each clip we beryllium down, I’m struck by our quality to find caller areas of cooperation. Today was nary different.”

This was the eighth clip the 2 person met successful idiosyncratic successful the past 4 years and Saturday’s gathering is seen arsenic Biden’s “farewell” Quad arsenic US President.

Modi, who is successful Delaware arsenic portion of his three-day sojourn to the United States, volition besides clasp abstracted bilateral meetings with Japan PM Fumio Kishida and Australian PM Anthony Albanese.

The Prime Minister is accompanied by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Ambassador of India to US Vinay Mohan Kwatra.

NSA Ajit Doval, usually portion of the authoritative delegation, is not accompanying the PM. Sources said that the Jammu & Kashmir elections and home commitments person kept him back. Days ago, a US tribunal had issued summons to NSA Doval, among different apical quality officials, aft pro-Khalistan separatist fig Gurupatwant Singh Pannun filed a civilian suit seeking damages for an alleged crippled to assassinate him successful the US past year. India has reacted sharply to the charges, with Misri describing them arsenic “completely unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations”.

The US squad included Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs T H Jake Sullivan and Ambassador of the US to India Eric Garcetti.

This is the 3rd US President Modi has interacted with successful office, since helium won successful 2014 – Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump being the different two.

The Modi-Biden bilateral volition beryllium watched by galore arsenic the 2 leaders instrumentality banal of the authorities of the narration that has faced challenges successful the past twelvemonth implicit the alleged assassination plot.

However, convergences acold outweigh the differences: the strategical alignment has deepened, determination is simply a increasing and shared interest astir an assertive Beijing, entree to exertion and capital, and the US is emerging arsenic the astir favoured destination for Indian younker for education, jobs and innovation.

Modi’s three-day sojourn is acceptable to encapsulate each these elements: bilateral (with meetings with President); multilateral (Quad leaders’ summit); Indian diaspora outreach (event astatine Nassau County, Long Island adjacent New York City); and a forum to sermon the ideas of the aboriginal and the adjacent procreation (the Summit of the Future astatine the UN).

As Biden signs disconnected arsenic President successful January, the US is successful the mediate of a intimately contested US predetermination with Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Trump facing off.

Meetings with some Harris, Democratic Presidential candidate, and Trump, the Republican Presidential candidate, are inactive “work successful progress”, fixed that some are campaigning extracurricular New York and Delaware — the 2 places wherever Modi is travelling.

After the Quad summit, Modi volition question to New York for the Indian diaspora lawsuit connected September 22. Modi said helium was eagerly looking guardant to engaging with the Indian diaspora and important US concern leaders, “the cardinal stakeholders (who) supply vibrancy to the unsocial concern betwixt the largest and the oldest democracies of the world”.

This lawsuit volition beryllium held astatine Nassau County wherever the T20 Cricket satellite cupful was held aboriginal this year.

On September 23, Modi volition code the Summit of the Future astatine the UN office successful New York. He returns connected September 24.