Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be travelling to the US later this week, will have his first ‘live’ bilateral meeting with American President Joe Biden on September 24, White House announced on Monday.
Biden will be hosting the first ever in-person QUAD summit in Washington DC on September 24, where the Prime Ministers of Japan and Australia will also be present.
Modi and Biden have spoken thrice over telephone while both have been present virtually on two occasions, in March and April. But this will be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since Biden took over as US President in January this year.
The importance of the Modi-Biden meeting can’t be over-stated, especially in the backdrop of events in Afghanistan and Taliban taking over the war-torn country.
