PM Modi to meet Joe Biden for bilateral talks on Sept 24: White House
21 Sep 2021 10:25:53
Washington DC, September 21: United States President Joe Biden will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 24, the White House announced. The two leaders are expected to discuss the recent status quo in Afghanistan at length, along with other bilateral issues.
The White House announced the Narendra Modi-Joe Biden bilateral meeting on Monday as part of the US president’s scheduled meeting for the week. "The President will participate in a bilateral meeting with His Excellency Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India," it said on the maiden meeting between the two leaders on Friday.
This will be the first in-person meeting (of President Biden) with PM Modi on Friday. It'll be an opportunity to go from strength to strength from the point of view of our global partnership with India, by working together to uphold free and open Indo-Pacific, a senior Biden administration official said.
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In the bilateral with PM Modi, the 2 leaders will have the opportunity to talk about the threat of counterterrorism & the situation in Afghanistan & how we can work together to fight a common enemy of terrorism, Biden administration official added. The relationship between the US and India is deeper than just a government-to-government relationship, it is a relationship between two people, the official mentioned.
After the bilateral, Narendra Modi and Joe Biden will join Australia’s Scott Morrison and Japan’s Yoshihide Suga at the first in-person summit of Quad leaders that is being hosted by the US president at the White House. Joe Biden and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga are slated to hold a bilateral meeting after the Quad summit. The four leaders had held their first Quad summit virtually in March, and it was also hosted by the American president.
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Following the Quad Summit, Narendra Modi will then leave for New York where he will address the UN General Assembly on Saturday (Sept 25) as the first speaker of the day. Narendra Modi last addressed the UNGA in person in 2019 as the 2020 meetings were held virtually amidst a raging Covid-19 pandemic that had hit New York state and city the hardest in the United States at the time turning them into ground zero of the worst public health crisis faced by the world in more than 100 years.
Following the Quad Summit, Narendra Modi will then leave for New York where he will address the UN General Assembly on Saturday (Sept 25) as the first speaker of the day. Narendra Modi last addressed the UNGA in person in 2019 as the 2020 meetings were held virtually amidst a raging Covid-19 pandemic that had hit New York state and city the hardest in the United States at the time turning them into ground zero of the worst public health crisis faced by the world in more than 100 years.
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