Prime Minister Narendra Modi today left for the U.S. after ending his engagements in Switzerland, where he secured the European nation’s support for India’s NSG membership ahead of a key meeting of the 48-nation bloc.
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“We have both agreed to support each other for our respective bids for the non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council”, he said.
Both sides are expected to have discussed issues of mutual interests, including trade investments, energy and infra structure sectors, besides India’s membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and black money during the talks.
From Geneva, Modi will travel to the USA and then to Mexico before returning to India.
Inviting a galaxy of Swiss business leaders to invest in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Monday that India needs to create an economy of the order of “two or three Switzerlands”, which provides a massive opportunity for partnerships.
Since 2014, there have been six meetings and countless phone calls between Obama and Modi, and this visit “reflects the significance that the two leaders place on the natural alliance between the two largest democratic countries of the world”, a senior U.S. official had said ahead of the meeting.
“Combating the menace of black money and tax evasion is also our shared priority”.
The Indian leader pointed to “the need for an early and expeditious exchange of information to bring to justice the tax offenders”. “An early start to negotiations on the agreement on the automatic exchange of information would be important in this respect”, Modi said.
Modi has a packed schedule here, including the address to a joint session of the US Congress. “Hence, Swiss model of skill development is very relevant for us”, the prime minister said.
“We want to have manufacturing of global standards.
A who’s who of Swiss business at Round Table with Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, Swarup said in another tweet. The pair had won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 2015.
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The welfare of Indian workers and the problems they face also came up for discussion.
