As External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Hiroshima on Sunday, both sides discussed plans for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S. in June, with sources saying a number of possible plans including a “short retreat” outside Washington are still being finalised.
“We look forward to hosting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June, whose visit will celebrate the deep partnership between the United States and India,” Mr. Blinken wrote in a tweet, which Mr. Jaishankar thanked him for.
At the Quad meeting held on the sidelines of the G-7 summit on Saturday, U.S. President Biden also reportedly referred to the upcoming visit. According to the BJP’s National Information & Technology Department in-charge Amit Malviya, who tweeted that Mr. Biden heaped “fawning praise” on Mr. Modi, the U.S. President had said that there is a “huge demand from people across U.S. to attend the State dinner next month”, joking that he should seek PM Modi’s “autograph”. Neither the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) nor the U.S. Embassy in Delhi confirmed the remarks by the U.S. President in Hiroshima, that were also reported by a number of media agencies.
