Chatterjee, who played a key role in reviving the India-U.S. relationship after the Pokhran nuclear tests, vividly remembers how he and many other Indian Americans had to lobby for months in the Congress to invite the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to address a joint session of the Congress on September 14, 2000.
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President Barack Obama met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Modi said he will meet Obama again for 11th G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, (on September 4-6) and the two countries will fulfill their dream of climate justice.
He will be the fifth Indian Prime Minister to address the US Congress after Rajiv Gandhi, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.
A senior USA lawmaker has said that there is every likelihood that PM Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama would discuss ongoing developments in Pakistan and their impact on India and the larger South Asian region on the sidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) meeting scheduled to be held in Washington this week.
“India and the U.S. can work together to use this talent and youth power for the welfare of the world”, he said.
“We continue to discuss a wide range of areas where we can cooperate more effectively in order to promote jobs, promote investment, promote trade, and promote greater opportunities for our people, particularly young people, in both of our countries”, he said, adding that they wanted to focus on regional security in South Asia.
India is the world’s third-largest carbon emitter among nations, after China and the U.S. The Paris agreement aims to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with preindustrial times.
Deese highlighted what he termed a “path to success” between the USA and India on cutting HFCs, a potent warming gas used in refrigeration and air conditioning.
“This statement should provide significant momentum towards this global push”, he said.
According to authorities in India, Kapoor is in jail awaiting trial for allegedly looting rare historic antiquities from several countries. The U.S.is eager for countries to join quickly because the deal’s carbon-cutting requirements only kick in once a critical mass of polluting nations join.
“Personally it is commemorating my friend (Kalpana Chawla)”, 50-year-old Williams said.
Other joint announcements seemed to illustrate the major challenges in securing concrete progress on climate.
On finalising the nitty-gritty relating to the broad agreement for cooperation in civil nuclear energy between India and Japan, inked in December past year, the envoy said both countries were working on it and that there was no “road blocks” or any “major pending issues”, He, however, did not give any time line. They are among countries concerned that India has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a step that would require New Delhi to give up its nuclear arsenal.
During his remarks to the media, Obama said they discussed progress made in the Civil Nuclear agreement.
India and Japan had sealed a broad agreement for cooperation in civil nuclear energy during Abe’s visit here past year. On Wednesday, he would address a joint meeting of the US Congress.
“We discussed how we can, as quickly as possible, bring the Paris Agreement into force”, Obama told reporters during talks in the Oval Office.
Modi is one of the few world leaders that Obama has invited to the White House as he enters the last lap of his presidency.
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The two leaders also finalized agreements on military logistics and sharing “terrorist screening information”.
