India and US situation joint assertion after bilateral assembly between PM Modi and President Biden

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral assembly with US President Joe Biden at his official residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg in Delhi on Friday night, 8 September, forward of the G20 Summit on Saturday and Sunday. PM Modi tweeted concerning the assembly after it was concluded, saying that they had been capable of focus on on quite a few subjects.

Now a joint assertion has issued by each nations after the assembly. The 29-para assertion revealed by the White House covers numerous points, exhibiting that each the leaders had a relatively complete speak, which was attended by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, US NSA Jake Sullivan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval, amongst others.

The assertion says that the leaders re-emphasized that the shared values of freedom, democracy, human rights, inclusion, pluralism, and equal alternatives for all residents are essential to the success the nations get pleasure from and that these values strengthen the connection.

President Biden lauded India’s G20 Presidency for additional demonstrating how the G20 as a discussion board is delivering necessary outcomes. He additionally congratulated PM Modi and ISRO scientists for the profitable Chandrayaan-3 mission.

PM Modi and President Biden reaffirmed the significance of the Quad, a strategic safety dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the USA, in supporting a free, open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific. Significantly, the US president has reaffirmed his help for a reformed UN Security Council with India as a everlasting member.

The joint assertion touches on collaborations on expertise, area program, the semiconductor business, telecommunication, Quantum science, Biotechnology, subsequent technology communication techniques, cyber-security, sustainability and inexperienced applied sciences, clever transportation techniques, defence, schooling, gender points, nuclear vitality, renewable vitality   and lots of different subjects.

The deal between GE Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautical Limited to fabricate the GE F-414 jet engines in India discovered a particular point out within the assertion. US president additionally welcomed India’s order for MQ-9B drones.

The full joint assertion is reproduced beneath:

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed United States President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to India as we speak, reaffirming the shut and enduring partnership between India and the United States. The leaders expressed their appreciation for the substantial progress underway to implement the bottom breaking achievements of Prime Minister Modi’s historic, June 2023, go to to Washington.

2. The leaders known as on their governments to proceed the work of reworking the India-U.S. Strategic Partnership throughout all dimensions of our multifaceted world agenda, primarily based on belief and mutual understanding. The leaders re-emphasized that the shared values of freedom, democracy, human rights, inclusion, pluralism, and equal alternatives for all residents are essential to the success our nations get pleasure from and that these values strengthen our relationship.

3. President Biden lauded India’s G20 Presidency for additional demonstrating how the G20 as a discussion board is delivering necessary outcomes. The leaders reaffirmed their dedication to the G20 and expressed confidence that the outcomes of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi will advance the shared targets of accelerating sustainable growth, bolstering multilateral cooperation, and constructing world consensus round inclusive financial insurance policies to deal with our best widespread challenges, together with basically reshaping and scaling up multilateral growth banks.

4. Prime Minister Modi and President Biden reaffirmed the significance of the Quad in supporting a free, open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific. Prime Minister Modi regarded ahead to welcoming President Biden to the following Quad Leaders’ Summit to be hosted by India in 2024. India welcomed the U.S. resolution to co-lead the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative Pillar on Trade Connectivity and Maritime Transport, additional to the U.S. resolution to affix IPOI in June 2023.

5. Continuing to share the view that world governance have to be extra inclusive and consultant, President Biden reaffirmed his help for a reformed UN Security Council with India as a everlasting member, and, on this context, welcomed as soon as once more India’s candidature for the united states non-permanent seat in 2028-29. The leaders as soon as once more underscored the necessity to strengthen and reform the multilateral system so it could higher replicate up to date realities and stay dedicated to a complete UN reform agenda, together with by growth in everlasting and non-permanent classes of membership of the UN Security Council.

6. Prime Minister Modi and President Biden reaffirmed expertise’s defining position in deepening our strategic partnership and lauded ongoing efforts by the India-U.S. Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) to construct open, accessible, safe, and resilient expertise ecosystems and worth chains, primarily based on mutual confidence and belief, which reinforce our shared values and democratic establishments. The United States and India intend to undertake a midterm overview of iCET in September 2023 to proceed to drive momentum towards the following annual iCET overview, co-led by the National Security Advisors of each nations, in early 2024.

7. President Biden congratulated Prime Minister Modi and the scientists and engineers of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Chandrayaan-3’s historic touchdown on the south polar area of the Moon, in addition to the profitable launch of India’s first photo voltaic mission, Aditya-L1. Having set a course to achieve new frontiers throughout all sectors of area cooperation, the leaders welcomed efforts in direction of institution of a Working Group for industrial area collaboration beneath the present India-U.S. Civil Space Joint Working Group. Determined to deepen our partnership in outer area exploration, ISRO and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have commenced discussions on modalities, capability constructing, and coaching for mounting a joint effort to the International Space Station in 2024, and are persevering with efforts to finalise a strategic framework for human area flight cooperation by the top of 2023. India and the United States additionally intend to extend coordination on planetary defence to guard planet Earth and area property from the impression of asteroids and near-Earth objects, together with U.S. help for India’s participation in asteroid detection and monitoring by way of the Minor Planet Center.

8. The leaders reiterated their help for constructing resilient world semiconductor provide chains, noting on this respect a multi-year initiative of Microchip Technology, Inc., to speculate roughly US$300 million in increasing its analysis and growth presence in India and Advanced Micro Device’s announcement to speculate US$400 million in India over the following 5 years to broaden analysis, growth, and engineering operations in India. The leaders expressed satisfaction on the ongoing implementation of bulletins made in June 2023 by U.S. corporations, Micron, LAM Research, and Applied Materials.

9. Sharing a imaginative and prescient of safe and trusted telecommunications, resilient provide chains, and world digital inclusion, Prime Minister Modi and President Biden welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Bharat 6G Alliance and Next G Alliance, operated by Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, as a primary step in direction of deepening public-private cooperation between distributors and operators. They additional acknowledged the setting-up of two Joint Task Forces targeted on collaboration within the area of Open RAN and analysis and growth in 5G/6G applied sciences. A 5G Open RAN pilot in a number one Indian telecom operator will probably be undertaken by a U.S. Open RAN producer earlier than area deployment. The leaders proceed to stay up for the participation of Indian corporations within the U.S. Rip and Replace Program; President Biden additionally welcomed India’s help for a Rip and Replace pilot within the United States.

10. The United States reiterated its dedication to working along with India within the quantum area, each bilaterally and thru the Quantum Entanglement Exchange, a platform to facilitate worldwide quantum trade alternatives; and welcomed the participation of India’s S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, as a member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium. It was additionally acknowledged that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange as a global companion.

11. The leaders hailed the signing of an Implementation Arrangement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and India’s Department of Biotechnology to allow scientific and technological analysis collaborations in biotechnology and biomanufacturing improvements. They welcomed the decision for proposals launched by NSF and India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to foster educational and industrial collaboration in semiconductor analysis, subsequent technology communication techniques, cyber-security, sustainability and inexperienced applied sciences, and clever transportation techniques.

12. Reaffirming their dedication to constructing resilient expertise worth chains and linking defence industrial ecosystems, the leaders recommitted their administrations to selling insurance policies and adapting rules that facilitate higher expertise sharing, co-development, and co-production alternatives between Indian and U.S. business, authorities and educational establishments. They additionally welcomed continued engagement by an inter-agency monitoring mechanism beneath the auspices of the bilateral Strategic Trade Dialogue, launched in June 2023.

13. The leaders welcomed the signing of an MoU between Indian universities, represented by the Council of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Council), and the Association of American Universities (AAU) to ascertain the India-U.S. Global Challenges Institute, with a mixed preliminary dedication of at the least US$10 million. The Global Challenges Institute will convey collectively main analysis and higher-education establishments from throughout our two nations, together with past AAU and IIT membership, to advance new frontiers in science and expertise, spanning collaboration in sustainable vitality and agriculture, well being and pandemic preparedness, semiconductor expertise and manufacturing, superior supplies, telecommunications, synthetic intelligence, and quantum science.

14. The leaders additionally welcomed the rising variety of multi-institutional collaborative schooling partnerships, reminiscent of these between New York University-Tandon and IIT Kanpur Advanced Research Center, and the Joint Research Centers of the State University of New York at Buffalo and IIT Delhi, Kanpur, Jodhpur, and BHU, within the areas of essential and rising applied sciences.

15. The leaders affirmed the significance of efforts to shut the gender digital divide within the digital financial system, noting a G20 dedication to halve the digital gender hole by 2030 and expressed help for the Women within the Digital Economy Initiative, which brings collectively governments, personal sector corporations, foundations civil society and multilateral organizations to speed up progress towards the closure of the digital gender divide.

16. Prime Minister Modi and President Biden reaffirmed their dedication to deepen and diversify the India-U.S. Major Defence Partnership by expanded cooperation in new and rising domains reminiscent of area and AI, and accelerated defence industrial collaboration.

17. The leaders welcomed completion of the Congressional Notification course of on 29 August 2023 and the graduation of negotiations for a industrial settlement between GE Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL) to fabricate GE F-414 jet engines in India, and recommitted to work collaboratively and expeditiously to help the development of this unprecedented co-production and expertise switch proposal.

18. The leaders applauded the conclusion of a second Master Ship Repair Agreement, with the latest settlement signed by the U.S. Navy and Mazgaon Dock Shipbuilders, Ltd., in August 2023. Both sides recommitted to advancing India’s emergence as a hub for the upkeep and restore of forward-deployed U.S. Navy property and different plane and vessels. The leaders additionally welcomed additional commitments from U.S. business to speculate extra in India’s upkeep, restore, and overhaul capabilities and amenities for plane.

19. The leaders recommended the India-U.S. Defence Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) staff for establishing a sturdy collaboration agenda to harness the revolutionary work of the U.S. and Indian defence sectors to deal with shared safety challenges. INDUS-X convened the inaugural Academia Start-up Partnership at IIT Kanpur, with the participation of Penn State University, and initiated the Joint Accelerator Program for Indian Startups, by a workshop led by U.S. accelerator M/s Hacking 4 Allies (H4x) and IIT Hyderabad in August 2023. Both sides additionally welcomed the announcement by the Indian Ministry of Defence’s Innovations for Defence Excellence and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit to launch two joint challenges, which is able to invite start-ups to develop options to shared defence expertise challenges.

20. President Biden welcomed the issuance of a Letter of Request from the Ministry of Defence of India to obtain 31 General Atomics MQ-9B (16 Sky Guardian and 15 Sea Guardian) remotely piloted plane and their related gear, which is able to improve the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of India’s armed forces throughout all domains.

21. Reiterating the significance of nuclear vitality as a obligatory useful resource to satisfy our nations’ local weather, vitality transition, and vitality safety wants, Prime Minister Modi and President Biden welcomed intensified consultations between the related entities on each side to broaden alternatives for facilitating India-U.S. collaboration in nuclear vitality, together with in growth of subsequent technology small modular reactor applied sciences in a collaborative mode. The United States reaffirmed its help for India’s membership within the Nuclear Suppliers Group and dedicated to proceed engagement with like-minded companions to advance this objective.

22. The leaders welcomed the inaugural assembly of the India-U.S. Renewable Energy Technologies Action Platform [RE-TAP], in August 2023, beneath which the 2 nations will have interaction in lab-to-lab collaboration, piloting, and testing of revolutionary applied sciences; collaboration on coverage and planning to advance renewable vitality and enabling applied sciences; funding, incubation and outreach programmes; and coaching and talent growth to speed up the uptake and adoption of recent and rising renewable applied sciences and vitality techniques.

23. Reiterating the significance of decarbonizing the transport sector, the leaders welcomed progress to broaden electrical mobility in India, together with joint help for a cost safety mechanism financed by each private and non-private funds. This will speed up the procurement of 10,000 made-in India electrical buses together with these for the Indian PM e-Bus Sewa program that may embrace the related charging infrastructure. The two nations are dedicated to working collectively to assist diversify the worldwide provide chain for e-mobility.

24. India and the United States are additionally advancing the creation of funding platforms to decrease the price of capital and speed up the deployment of greenfield renewable vitality, battery storage and rising inexperienced expertise tasks in India. Towards this finish, India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund and the U.S. Development Finance Corporation exchanged letters of intent to every present as much as US$500 million to anchor a renewable infrastructure funding fund.

25. The leaders lauded the settlement of the seventh and final excellent World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute between India and the United States. This follows the unprecedented settlement of six excellent bilateral commerce disputes within the WTO in June 2023.

26. The leaders welcomed efforts to develop an formidable “Innovation Handshake” agenda beneath the India-U.S. Commercial Dialogue, to incorporate two anchor occasions within the fall (one in India and one within the United States), through which our two sides will collaborate to convey collectively start-ups, personal fairness and enterprise capital corporations, company funding departments, and authorities officers to forge connections between the 2 nations’ innovation ecosystems.

27. The leaders welcomed our rising bilateral cooperation in most cancers analysis, prevention, management, and administration, and regarded ahead to the launch of the India-U.S. Cancer Dialogue in November 2023. This dialogue will give attention to advancing data in most cancers genomics, creating new diagnostics and therapeutics to boost and strengthen most cancers care together with for underserved city and rural communities. The leaders additionally highlighted the upcoming U.S.-India Health Dialogue, going down in October 2023 in Washington, D.C., underscoring their joint dedication to strengthening and facilitating scientific, regulatory, and well being cooperation between our two nations.

28. The leaders welcomed the renewal of a Memorandum of Arrangement between the U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) to facilitate restoration from India of the stays of fallen U.S. service members who served in World War II.

29. Prime Minister Modi and President Biden pledged to maintain the high-level of engagement between our governments, industries, and educational establishments and notice their formidable imaginative and prescient for an everlasting India-U.S. partnership that advances the aspirations of our folks for a vivid and affluent future, serves the worldwide good, and contributes to a free, open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific.