Commerce, defence and nuclear-ties on agenda of PM Modi-Trump summit in US | India Information

NEW DELHI: Commerce, defence and nuclear cooperation are prone to dominate PM Narendra Modi’s first bilateral assembly with President Donald Trump subsequent week on Feb 12-13. Saying Modi’s official working go to, international secretary Vikram Misri stated the PM could be among the many first world leaders to go to the US within the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, in an indication of the bipartisan US help for the partnership with India.
Modi will fly to Washington from Paris the place he’ll take part in an AI summit on Feb 10 and 11 and still have a bilateral assembly with President Emmanuel Macron.
Modi can have restricted and delegation-level talks with Trump and work together with enterprise leaders, in addition to the Indian group, on Feb 13. Officers, nonetheless, did not touch upon hypothesis that Elon Musk may name on Modi in the course of the go to.
Whereas Misri didn’t affirm that the negotiations with the primary Trump administration for a commerce deal could be resumed, he stated very intense discussions are possible on commerce and funding as this remained a precedence challenge for India. India is hoping for a restoration of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) commerce advantages that had been revoked by the earlier Trump administration. The talks are additionally anticipated to see some progress within the negotiations for joint improvement of small modular reactors.
Misri stated there was a really shut rapport between Trump and Modi, relationship again to the US chief’s first time period. “There’s a clear convergence of pursuits between the 2 international locations in a number of areas, together with commerce, funding, know-how, defence, counter-terrorism, Indo-Pacific and folks to individuals contacts,” he stated.
“The go to can be a priceless alternative to interact the brand new administration on all areas of mutual curiosity. This has been one in every of our strongest worldwide partnerships lately and the prime minister’s go to is in keeping with our regular engagement with the brand new administration,” he added.
Misri stated the 5.4 million-strong Indian group in US and greater than 350,000 Indian college students pursuing increased training in American universities additional strengthen the bond between India & US.