PM Modi leaves for US, says Quad ‘key group…for peace, progress and prosperity in Indo-Pacific region’

In the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the Quad Summit hosted by US President Joe Biden and address the Summit of the Future at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Modi, who left Delhi on Saturday morning, will hold meetings with Biden and then the leaders of the Quad grouping on Saturday night and early hours of Sunday, as per India Standard Time (IST). (Photo: X)

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for a three-day trip to the United States on Saturday, he said that meeting with US President Joe Biden will allow them to “review and identify new pathways to further deepen India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership for the benefit of our people and the global good”.

Modi, who left Delhi on Saturday morning, will hold meetings with Biden and then the leaders of the Quad grouping on Saturday night and early hours of Sunday, as per India Standard Time (IST). He will be meeting Biden in Wilmington, Delaware.

“Today, I am embarking on a three-day visit to the United States of America to participate in the Quad Summit being hosted by President Biden in his hometown Wilmington and to address the Summit of the Future at the UN General Assembly in New York,” Modi said in a departure statement.

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Saying that he was looking forward to joining his colleagues Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for the Quad Summit, Modi said in his statement that “the forum has emerged as a key group of the like-minded countries to work for peace, progress and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region”.

“I am eagerly looking forward to engaging with the Indian diaspora and important American business leaders, who are the key stakeholders and provide vibrancy to the unique partnership between the largest and the oldest democracies of the world,” Modi said, referring to the diaspora event in Nassau County in Long Island, New York.

He said, “The Summit of the Future is an opportunity for the global community to chart the road ahead for the betterment of humanity. I will share views of the one sixth of the humanity as their stakes in a peaceful and secure future are among the highest in the world.”

The Summit of the Future is being held at the UN headquarters in New York.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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