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Biden and Modi reinforce U.S.-India partnership in bilateral meeting
They underscored that a closer U.S.-India partnership is vital to the success of efforts to build a cleaner, inclusive, more secure, and more prosperous future for the planet.
PM NArendra Modi and US President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting on Sept. 21 in Delaware. / PIB
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Joe Biden, in what is expected to be their last bilateral meeting, reaffirmed their commitment to advancing the U.S.-India Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership, calling it the defining partnership of the 21st century that delivers for the global good.
The two leaders exchanged views on global and regional issues including the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. President Biden lauded India’s leadership on the world stage, particularly in the G-20 and in the Global South and appreciated Prime Minister Modi for his historic visits to Poland and Ukraine, the first by an Indian Prime Minister in decades.
They applauded the success of the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) in deepening and expanding strategic cooperation across key technology sectors, including space, semiconductors, and advanced telecommunications and reviewed the collaborative progress between the Commerce Department and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to enhance the two countries’ innovation ecosystems under the "Innovation Handshake” agenda.
I thank President Biden for hosting me at his residence in Greenville, Delaware. Our talks were extremely fruitful. We had the opportunity to discuss regional and global issues during the meeting. @JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/WzWW3fudTn
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 21, 2024
In defense, the leaders welcomed ongoing collaboration to advance priority co-production arrangements for jet engines, munitions, and ground mobility systems and commended the conclusion of the Security of Supply Arrangement (SOSA), enhancing the mutual supply of defense goods and services.
To promote energy transistion, they also applauded the launch of a new program under the U.S.-India Roadmap to Build Safe and Secure Global Clean Energy Supply Chains, which aims to accelerate the expansion of safe and secure clean energy supply chains through U.S. and Indian manufacturing of clean energy technologies and components.
During Modi's visit, India signed the Agreement on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), which seeks to advance resilience, sustainability, inclusiveness, economic growth, fairness, and competitiveness of the economies of its signatories.
Additionally, the two heads of state reviewed agreements signed in various sectors such as Trade, Business, Healthcare and Agriculture among others and underscored that a closer U.S.-India partnership is vital to the success of efforts to build a cleaner, inclusive, more secure, and more prosperous future for the planet.
"President Biden and Prime Minister Modi expressed unrelenting optimism and the utmost confidence that the tireless efforts of our peoples, our civic and private sectors, and our governments to forge deeper bonds have set the U.S.-India partnership on a path toward even greater heights in the decades ahead," a joint statement read.
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