“They have two pretty lengthy meetings”.
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“Combating the menace of “black money” and tax evasion is also our shared priority”, Modi said.
US President Barack Obama has announced that his country is backing India’s bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
Except, well, maybe they aren’t actually friends.
India’s increasing willingness to form military partnerships with the United States is in part a result of its deepening worries about China.
It was one of the most inspirational speech ever, she said.
The Times, citing a Human Rights Watch report, said the BJP government in India has “increasingly used the country’s broad and vague laws restricting free speech to stifle dissent”.
“We have seen, in recent years, greater and closer coordination between United States and Indian national security officials”. US lawmakers say it’s still too hard for Americans to invest in India, even with some easing of restrictions under Modi.
“He comes back from his visits (abroad) to say: ‘I’ve been able to secure so much respect for India, ‘” said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a Modi biographer.
“The United States reaffirms its commitment to join the agreement as soon as possible this year”.
Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister reviewed the multifaceted bilateral ties between India and Switzerland with the Swiss President Schneider-Ammann.
Prime Minister Modi, who visited several countries this week, added Mexico and Switzerland to his itinerary because both had expressed reservations over India’s inclusion.
Later, he met American Think Tank officials.
Modi reached USA on June 7 after visiting Afghanistan, Qatar and Switzerland.
Looking forward to Modi’s address to the joint meeting of the US Congress in Wednesday, McCain referred to the leadership of the Prime Minister in improving bilateral relationship.
Royce and other lawmakers had initiated the move to invite Modi to address a joint meeting of the US Congress.
The U.S. official said India and the U.S. have finalised the text of the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), and the document is ready for signing.
New Delhi also sees Washington as a key ally to help it gain entry to the Nuclear Suppliers Group – a group of nuclear supplier countries that regulate nuclear-related exports in order to prevent nuclear proliferation.
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.
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The MTCR is one of four global non-proliferation regimes that India, which in recent decades has gone from being a non-aligned outsider to a rising nuclear-weapons power, has been excluded from.
