Once banned from US, Modi meets Obama at White House
Reuters
2014-09-30
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Manufacturing and efforts to support clean energy dominated talks between President Barack Obama and new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (September 30).
Obama noted that the U.S. and India are two of the world's largest democracies adding, "We have so much in common, it is important for us to continue to deepen and broaded the existing framework of partnership and friendship that already exists."
This is Modi's first to the United States since taking office in May.
The meeting in the Oval Office, which came on the heels of a White House dinner and New York meetings with power players including Bill and Hillary Clinton and chief executive officers from Boeing and GE. It is something of a reversal of fortune for the 64-year-old politician who nearly a decade earlier, was banned from coming to the U.S.
In 2005, Modi, then the chief minister of Gujarat was denied a U.S. visa over rioting in his home state t
Manufacturing and efforts to support clean energy dominated talks between President Barack Obama and new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (September 30).
Obama noted that the U.S. and India are two of the world's largest democracies adding, "We have so much in common, it is important for us to continue to deepen and broaded the existing framework of partnership and friendship that already exists."
This is Modi's first to the United States since taking office in May.
The meeting in the Oval Office, which came on the heels of a White House dinner and New York meetings with power players including Bill and Hillary Clinton and chief executive officers from Boeing and GE. It is something of a reversal of fortune for the 64-year-old politician who nearly a decade earlier, was banned from coming to the U.S.
In 2005, Modi, then the chief minister of Gujarat was denied a U.S. visa over rioting in his home state t
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