Modi-Trump meeting in June |
United States National Security Advisor H R McMaster met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, setting the ball rolling for a bilateral visit by the Prime Minister in the next few months, possibly as early as June. If this happens, it will be his fifth visit to the US in three years. Washington and New Delhi are trying to work out dates, much ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, widely expected to be Modi`s first bilateral visit to the US after the new administration under President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2017. The US State Department is not willing to host foreign leaders for bilateral meetings around UNGA, since they have already received more than two dozen “requests” for bilateral meetings with Trump. Both Indian and American government sources confirmed the possibility that Modi may travel to the US for a stand-alone bilateral visit in June or July. Modi and Trump are anyway expected to meet in early July during the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Sources said that one tranche of dates has been proposed in early-to-mid June, and the other set of dates is in mid-July. The two sides discussed a range of bilateral and regional issues, including their shared interest in increasing defence and counter-terrorism cooperation, the US embassy in New Delhi said in a statement after the meetings.
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