Students give last touches to work of U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at an artwork college in Mumbai ahead of the two-day G20 summit in New Delhi, Sept. 5, 2023.
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President Joe Biden kicked off his go to to India with a non-public meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the place the leaders mentioned democracy and joint technology and infrastructure initiatives.
In a joint assertion after the meeting at Modi’s house, the leaders agreed to proceed motion on many fronts, together with semiconductors, larger training, decreasing carbon emissions, 5G and 6G technology and delivery lane entry in the Indo-Pacific.
Kurt Campbell, a Biden advisor on the Indo-Pacific, mentioned the 2 leaders have fashioned a rising bond “over a sequence of conferences and shared initiatives and ambitions during the last a number of years.”
Biden is in New Delhi for the Group of 20 summit and doesn’t have another formal bilateral conferences scheduled other than his go to with Modi however will mingle with world leaders on the summit. The president in June hosted Modi at a lavish state dinner on the White House.
“The undeniable fact that the United States — in all probability the nation that India has invested probably the most in deepening and creating a relationship with — confirmed up and is engaged in each main initiative that will probably be rolled out over the subsequent couple of days was value reassuring and gratifying for Indian interlocutors and that was not misplaced on us,” Campbell mentioned.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan additionally participated in the meeting on the U.S. facet, in response to the White House. The Indian delegation included External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
Campbell mentioned it was a “disappointment for India” that the leaders of China and Russia skipped the summit however famous “there are plain alternatives right here for the United States.”
“We totally intend to strengthen and deepen our relationship,” Campbell mentioned. “We go away it to China, in specific, to discuss and clarify why they are not right here.”