US President Joe Biden is understood to have invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a state visit this summer, PTI has learnt.
The invitation has been accepted in principle and officials from both sides are now working on mutually convenient dates, according to multiple sources, who noted that it is currently in the early stages of logistical planning.
Given that India is hosting a number of G20-related events this year, leading up to a summit in September, which will be attended by Biden among others, it is reliably learned that both sides have Officials are looking for suitable dates in June and July when not only are both the US House of Representatives and the Senate in session, but Modi also has a few days when he does not have pre-scheduled domestic commitments or international engagements.
A state visit requires at least a few days, which includes, among other things, addressing a joint session of the US Congress and a state dinner at the White House.
Apart from the G-20, Modi has domestic and international commitments lined up till the fall, before launching campaign for a series of crucial state assembly elections later this year.
The sources requested anonymity as they are not allowed to speak on the sensitive issue at this time, however, did not disclose when the invitation was extended and who extended the personal invitation from Biden to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Biden hosted French President Emmanuel Macron for his first state dinner last December.
Meanwhile, a senior administration official told reporters that Biden believes a partnership between India and the US, which are the world’s leading knowledge economies, is essential to addressing key global challenges.
“President Biden believes that as two of the world’s leading knowledge economies, this partnership is essential. They believe that no successful and sustainable efforts are being made to tackle any of the major challenges the world is facing today, whether we are food or energy or health security, the climate crisis , or talking about maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific. “Work without the US-India partnership,” a senior administration official told a group of Indian journalists.
Prime Minister Modi last year in Tokyo described the US-India relationship as a partnership of trust and a force for good global peace and stability.
“The United States truly believes that it is in our strategic interest to support India’s rise as a global power. We see this both in India’s presidency of the Quad and the G-20. It describes a larger vision of a coherent US-Indo Pacific strategy that requires both the US and India to come together and overcome long-standing barriers to do so.
On Tuesday, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit K Doval along with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan launched the India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies or ICET, which officials from both sides have hailed as the “next big thing” in India’s bilateral ties. described as two countries.
“Although geopolitics is one dimension of what is happening here, it is in a way more important, bigger than that. The United States believes that our relationship with India is important not just because the world today The way it is looking, it is rather the next logical milestone in our relationship.
“What we see happening here is actually bigger than 2006 (the year of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal),” he said.
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