Modi-Biden bilateral meet will strengthen India-US relations, increase Quad, says White House official

The maiden bilateral meet between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden on September 24 will enable taking the connection between the 2 nations from power to power whereas serving to in reinforcing and giving momentum to the Quad grouping, a White House official has stated.

Biden will host Modi on the White House for his or her first bilateral assembly on September 24. Later on that day, Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit on the White House with Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.Both Biden and PM Modi have spoken nearly on a number of events after the previous, a Democrat, grew to become US president in January. The final phone dialog between Prime Minister Modi and President Biden befell on April 26.’SHARED DEMOCRATIC VALUES'”The leaders will be focused on strengthening the deep ties between their people and shared democratic values that have underpinned the special bond between the United States and India for more than seven decades,” a White House official instructed 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 end the Covid-19 pandemic, and taking concerted action to address the climate crisis,” the official stated.STRENGTHENING INDIA-US RELATIONSAddressing a press convention earlier, a senior official of the administration stated the Biden-Modi assembly could be a possibility to go from power to power, from the standpoint of the partnership with India.This might be achieved by working collectively to uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific, by taking steps to contribute to a worldwide resolution to the Covid-19 pandemic and by taking concerted motion to handle the local weather disaster, the official stated.”So, the bilateral discussion between the US and India will help reinforce and give momentum to the Quad discussion because many of the topics are very much interrelated,” the official stated.TERRORISM, AFGHANISTAN ON AGENDA”Additionally, in the bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Modi, the two leaders will have the opportunity to talk about counter-terrorism, the Afghanistan situation and how we can work together to fight terrorism, our common enemy, as well as about a range of regional issues and developments where we’ll have the opportunity to compare notes,” stated the senior administration official.The official famous that the connection between the United States and India goes a lot deeper than only a government-to-government relationship.”It is a relationship between the two peoples. I think Prime Minister Modi and President Biden want to talk about the ways of pulling our countries even closer together at basically every level of interaction between our societies,” added the official.ALSO READ: US to raise journey bans for totally vaccinated people from NovemberALSO READ: US officer experiences Havana syndrome signs on journey to India: Reports