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“Gratitude for helping tide over Covid 2”: PM after meeting Kamala Harris

September 24, 2021
Henry Club

PM Narendra Modi and US Vice President Kamala Harris meet

New Delhi/Washington:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US Vice President Kamala Harris today on the first working day of his current US visit. Ms. Harris said, “India is a very important partner of America”.

Here are the top 10 points from this story:

  1. “I express my gratitude to the US for helping India when it was hit by the second wave of COVID-19,” PM Modi said in a meeting with Ms Harris. “India and the US are natural partners, we share common values, geopolitical interests, and our coordination and cooperation is growing,” PM Modi said, and invited the US Vice President to India.

  2. “When India experienced the rise of COVID, the United States was proud to support India’s need and responsibility to vaccinate its people. I welcome India’s announcement that it will soon resume vaccine exports. It is especially noteworthy and appreciated that India, I am told, is currently vaccinating about 10 million people a day as of today,” Ms Harris said.

  3. The Prime Minister will also hold a bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga in a few hours.

  4. Earlier on Thursday, he met a group of five top US corporate leaders from sectors as diverse as drones to 5G, semiconductors and solar, and encouraged them to step up their investments. Opportunities in India.

  5. He held separate meetings with the CEOs of Qualcomm, Adobe, First Solar, General Atomics and Blackstone. PM Modi arrived in Washington DC on Wednesday on an official visit to the US, during which he will hold his first one-on-one meeting with Presidents Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

  6. Ahead of his meeting with business leaders, PM Modi had said that he would hold talks with leading CEOs to uncover economic opportunities in India.

  7. Talking about the technology, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a Twitter post that after PM Modi’s meeting with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and First Solar CEO Mark Widmar. They had a productive conversation, it said.

  8. Sources told Reuters news agency that in the White House meeting with Harris, PM Modi is expected to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, greater cooperation in technology, space and other areas, and supply chain issues.

  9. PM Modi’s three-day visit to Washington will conclude with a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday. This will be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since Mr Biden took office as US President on January 20.

  10. Mr Biden and PM Modi will also hold a “quad” summit with leaders from Australia and Japan, aimed at boosting cooperation in the Indo-Pacific amid China’s growing dominance in the region.

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