PM Modi arrives in USA for QUAD summit, US President Biden sends welcome message

Philadelphia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Philadelphia International Airport on Saturday morning (local time) on the primary day of his three day talk over with to the United States.  Beforehand of leaving India, PM Modi said in his departure statement that he looked forward to joining his colleagues – President Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for the Quad Summit.

The forum has emerged as a key group of like-minded countries to work for peace, progress and prosperity within the Indo-Pacific region. The Prime Minister said that his meeting with President Biden will allow the 2 countries to examine and identify new pathways to moreover deepen India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership.

Joe Biden sends welcome message

Nowadays, I’ll welcome Prime Ministers Albanese, Modi, and Kishida to my home: Delaware.

These leaders aren’t just essential to ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific – they’re friends of mine and friends of our nation.

I take a seat up for all we’ll accomplish within the Summit ahead.

— President Biden (@POTUS) September 21, 2024

Just sooner than the Quad summit, PM Modi will engage in a bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden. India and United States enjoy a comprehensive global strategic partnership covering almost all areas of human endeavour, driven by shared democratic values, convergence of interests on quite a number issues, and vibrant people-to-people contacts.Many of the important thing issues is India-US defence cooperation, which changed into renewed for ten years in 2015.

In 2016, the defence relationship changed into designated as a Major Defence Partnership (MDP). On 30 July 2018, India changed into moved into the Tier-1 of the U. S. Department of Commerce’s Strategic Trade Authorization license exception. The US is likewise the largest trading partner of India with overall bilateral trade in goods and services and products of USD190.1 billion for calendar year 2023

Next on the PM’s agenda may perhaps be the annual Quad summit to be held in Wilmington, Delware, the fatherland of US President Joe Biden.The Sixth Quad summit brings together India, Australia, Japan, and the United States, with a commitment to work as a force for global good and to make stronger an open, free, and inclusive Indo-Pacific or not it's prosperous and resilient. The summit is likewise essential for India as or not it is going to be hosting the subsequent Summit.

PM Modi will sign up for US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday to speak about regional security and cooperation within the Indo-Pacific.The last Quad Leaders’ Summit, the fifth edition, changed into held in Hiroshima, Japan on May 20 last year. In the same way to the Joint Statement, the “Quad Leaders’ Vision Statement – Enduring Partners for the Indo-Pacific” changed into also released, outlining the Leaders’ vision for a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific, and upholding the rules of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and peaceful resolution of disputes.

From Wilmington, the Prime Minister will travel to New York. On September 22, PM Modi will address a community event of the Indian disapora at the Nassau Colliseum in Uniondale. About four.four million Indian American citizens/Indian origin people reside within the U. S.. Persons of Indian origin (three.18 million) constitute the third largest Asian ethnic group within the U. S..

Prime Minister Modi will also be attending a Business Roundtable with CEOs of leading US companies within the cutting-edge areas of Synthetic Intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, and biotechnology.

PM Modi will also attend the Summit of the Future (SOTF) at the United Nations on September 23. The theme of the Summit is ‘Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow’. SoTF is a a should-have milestone within the history of UN as it enters the eightieth year of its establishment in 2025. A P.c. for the Future, with its two annexes Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations, may perhaps be the outcome document of the SoTF.

The Summit is expected to witness participation of tons of world leaders. The P.c. for the Future is seen by many within the Global South as of venture to highlight issues of importance within the areas of health, energy security issues, climate change, radically change institutions of world governance and economic inequalities.