NEW DELHI: Commerce, defence and nuclear cooperation are prone to dominate PM Narendra Modi’s first bilateral assembly with President Donald Trump subsequent week on Feb 12-13. Saying Modi’s official working go to, overseas secretary Vikram Misri mentioned the PM could be among the many first world leaders to go to the US within the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, in an indication of the bipartisan US help for the partnership with India.
Modi will fly to Washington from Paris the place he’ll take part in an AI summit on Feb 10 and 11 and now have a bilateral assembly with President Emmanuel Macron.
Modi can have restricted and delegation-level talks with Trump and work together with enterprise leaders, in addition to the Indian neighborhood, on Feb 13. Officers, nonetheless, didn’t touch upon hypothesis that Elon Musk would possibly name on Modi throughout the go to.
Whereas Misri didn’t verify that the negotiations with the primary Trump administration for a commerce deal could be resumed, he mentioned very intense discussions are seemingly on commerce and funding as this remained a precedence situation for India. India is hoping for a restoration of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) commerce advantages that had been revoked by the earlier Trump administration. The talks are additionally anticipated to see some progress within the negotiations for joint growth of small modular reactors.
Misri mentioned there was a really shut rapport between Trump and Modi, courting again to the US chief’s first time period. “There is a clear convergence of interests between the two countries in several areas, including trade, investment, technology, defence, counter-terrorism, Indo-Pacific and people to people contacts,” he mentioned.
“The visit will be a valuable opportunity to engage the new administration on all areas of mutual interest. This has been one of our strongest international partnerships in recent years and the prime minister’s visit is in line with our steady engagement with the new administration,” he added.
Misri mentioned the 5.4 million-strong Indian neighborhood in US and greater than 350,000 Indian college students pursuing greater schooling in American universities additional strengthen the bond between India & US.
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