PM Modi-Joe Biden Meet Will Strengthen Ties, Boost Quad: White House Official

Washington: The maiden bilateral meet between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden on September 24 will allow taking the connection between the 2 countries from strength to strength while helping in reinforcing and giving momentum to the Quad grouping, a White House official has said.
Biden will host PM Modi at the White House for his or her first bilateral meeting on September 24. afterward that day, Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit at the White House with PM Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Both Biden and PM Modi have spoken virtually on multiple occasions after the previous , a Democrat, became US president in January. The last conversation between PM Modi and President Biden happened on April 26.

“The leaders are going to be focused on strengthening the deep ties between their people and shared democratic values that have underpinned the special bond between the us and India for quite seven decades,” a White House official told PTI.

“The Biden-Harris administration has enhanced our partnership with India by working together to uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific, leading efforts to finish the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking concerted action to deal with the climate crisis,” the official said.

Addressing a news conference earlier, a senior official of the administration said the Biden-PM Modi meeting would be a chance to travel from strength to strength, from the purpose of view of the partnership with India.
This can be done by working together to uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific, by taking steps to contribute to a worldwide solution to the COVID-19 pandemic and by taking concerted action to deal with the climate crisis, the official said.

“So, the bilateral discussion between the US and India will help reinforce and provides momentum to the Quad discussion because many of the topics are considerably interrelated,” the official said.

“Additionally, within the bilateral meeting with PM Modi, the 2 leaders will have the chance to speak about counter-terrorism, the Afghanistan situation and the way we will work together to fight terrorism, our common enemy, also as a few range of regional issues and developments where we’ll have the chance to match notes,” said the senior administration official.

The official noted that the connection between the us and India goes such a lot deeper than simply a government-to-government relationship.