“Will Make Great Trade Deals”: Trump At Meet With “Great Leader” PM Modi

Washington DC:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump met at present for the primary time since Trump returned to the White Home for a second time period. PM Modi is among the first international leaders to journey to the US for an official go to and meet Donald Trump after his electoral win. 

The 2 leaders are holding bilateral talks on the White Home the place they may talk about the complete gamut of ties. The main focus nonetheless, shall be on commerce, tariffs, and immigration.

The 2 leaders shook fingers and hugged one another earlier than they sat collectively and addressed the worldwide press on the White Home instantly earlier than holding bilateral talks. “I recognize how President Trump all the time retains his nation first. I do the identical – that’s one thing that we have now in frequent,” PM Modi mentioned, to which Donald Trump added that “He’s doing a fantastic job in India and he (PM Modi) and I share a fantastic friendship and we’ll proceed to construct on ties between our nations.”

The 2 leaders took questions from the media – together with one on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict in addition to the disaster in Bangladesh and US’s deep state being allegedly concerned in it. “The US has not been concerned in Bangladesh,” mentioned Donald Trump, including that “I’m leaving the Bangladesh subject to PM Modi” to resolve.

Answering the query on India’s doable function in ending the Russia-Ukraine battle, PM Modi mentioned “I help Donald Trump’s efforts in direction of discovering a doable resolution to finish the battle. The world someway feels India has been impartial in the course of the battle. However I want to reiterate that India has not been impartial – as a substitute, it has been on the aspect of peace.”

“Once I met President Putin, I had even mentioned that ‘this isn’t the period for battle’. I had additionally mentioned that options can’t be discovered within the battlefield. They’ll solely come when all events sit on the desk for dialogue,” he added.

On a query about tariffs and doable commerce offers between India and the US, Donald Trump mentioned “Prime Minister Modi is a superb chief,” including that “We’ll make some fantastic commerce offers for India and the US.”

Nonetheless, simply over an hour earlier than the bilateral assembly, President Trump formally introduced reciprocal tariffs on all nations. He additionally spoke about how India is “proper on the high of the pack” in relation to tariffs. PM Modi’s precedence in the course of the assembly is more likely to be on negotiating beneficial offers with Washington, with the purpose to keep away from excessive tariffs and develop the commerce basket between the 2 nations.

Issues regarding overseas funding, power, defence, expertise, visas, and immigration are additionally excessive on the agenda.

That is PM Modi’s tenth go to to the USA as prime minister and fourth with Trump as President. Biden hosted him at a ceremonial state go to in 2024. PM Modi’s first go to to the US as prime minister was in 2014 when Barack Obama was the President.