'Joe Biden is thrilled…': US NSA on PM Modi's state visit
2 min read 13 Jun 2023, 07:47 PM ISTThis is the first state visit of PM Modi to the United States and is likely to be the defining moment for the India-US relationship
PremiumUnited States National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan on Tuesday made some promising remarks on the upcoming state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jake Sullivan said that US President Joe Biden is thrilled with what's happening in India and PM Modi's visit will fundamentally remove obstacles in defence and high-tech trade between India and the United States. India's NSA Ajit Doval also met his US counterpart in New Delhi and expressed excitement over the future technological cooperation between both nations.
“US President Joe Biden is thrilled to see what is happening here and to watch how things unfold... As we look ahead to the state visit that PM Modi will be embarking upon in Washington next week, a number of the deliverables at that visit are not just bullet points on a page, they are fundamentally designed to remove obstacles in defence and high-tech trades and in taking away obstacles that have stood in the way of better collaboration among our scientists and researchers…," US NSA Jake Sullivan said.
"I was not sure whether the idea will be able to take off. Today, I am much more confident and hopeful. And it is because of not what has happened at the level of the government but because of what the response was at the level of institutions," India's NSA Ajit Doval said.
This is the first state visit of PM Modi to the United States and is likely to be the defining moment for the India-US relationship. The officials of India and the United States are working on a robust outcome document that will decide the contours of the bilateral relations between the two countries in the future.
The people familiar with the details of the meeting said that both President Biden and PM Modi agree that a strong India-US relationship is crucial not just for India, but for the rest of the world.
(With agency inputs)