United States Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan. Archive | Picture credit score: Reuters
US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would probably “have an opportunity to satisfy” on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, Nationwide Safety Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan stated in Washington on June thirteenth.
“He [Biden] hopes to see Prime Minister Modi right here. It’s as much as the Indians to formally verify their attendance, however our expectation is that the 2 could have the chance to satisfy. The character of that assembly continues to be fluid as a result of a lot of the schedule is fluid,” Sullivan instructed reporters aboard Air Pressure One on his method to Italy to attend the G7 Summit, together with the President of the USA.
India’s International Minister Vinay Mohan Kwatra instructed reporters in New Delhi that Modi would journey to Italy on June 13 on his first international journey after assuming workplace for a 3rd consecutive time period.
File photograph of US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | Picture credit score: Reuters
Italy has invited India to attend the fiftieth G7 Summit on June 14 as an extension nation.
Modi will meet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Kwatra confirmed. Nevertheless, particulars of conferences bilaterally or with different leaders are nonetheless being labored out, he stated.
Aboard Air Pressure One, Sullivan instructed reporters that Biden spoke to Modi by telephone whereas they had been in Paris to congratulate him on the election outcome and on being sworn in as Prime Minister for a 3rd time period.
In response to a query about allegations associated to an Indian official’s involvement in a plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist chief, the NSA stated the USA would proceed to boost the matter on the highest stage.
“We now have made our views identified on this subject and it is going to be a subject of continued dialogue between the USA and India, together with at very excessive ranges,” Sullivan added.
