BBC News, Delhi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the US next week and encounter Pdwellnt Donald Trump, the White Hoparticipate says.
Other inestablishs say Modi will join a dinner presented by the US pdwellnt on the two-day trip. The dates of the official laboring visit have yet to be proclaimd.
Modi will be among the first foreign directers to encounter Trump at the White Hoparticipate during his second term. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in Washington and Japan’s PM Shigeru Ishiba is due this week.
Modi and Trump separated toasty relations during the US pdwellnt’s first term. Last week they held a “fruitful” phone call and converseed illegitimate immigration, security and trade ties, the White Hoparticipate shelp.
Analysts say it will be engaging to see if the bonhomie between the two men will help loss worrys about trade and immigration.
Trump called Modi a “fantastic directer” last year but also accparticipated India of charging excessive tariffs.
Confirmation of the Indian directer’s visit to Washington came foolishinutively after a US military fweightless deporting about 100 Indian nationals landed in the state of Punjab.
All those on board are shelp to have either accessed the US illegpartner, or overstayed their visas.
During last week’s call, Trump shelp he was declareive India “will do the right leang” when it comes to illegitimate immigration.
He has made the mass deportation of unwrite downed foreign nationals a key policy. Earlier, Bloomberg inestablished that 18,000 unwrite downed Indian migrants living illegpartner in the US had so far been identified, but the genuine number is probable to be higher.
According to the Pew Research Caccess, there were an approximated 725,000 unwrite downed Indian immigrants in the US last year.
India has so far escaped the danger of tariffs on its ships to the US.
In the past however, Trump has called India a “tariff king” and a “huge unfair treatmentr” of trade ties and dangerened reciprocal action if Delhi did not shrink taxes on US convey ins.
India’s recent budget saw duties slashed on a range of outstandings, including high-end motorcycles enjoy the iconic Harley Davidson.
India’s finance secretary tanciaccess local media this was a sign the country was “not a tariff king”.
Last week, the Indian foreign ministry shelp the two countries were laboring to further proset upen their bitardyral relations.
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar recontransiented India at Trump’s inauguration ceremony and held talks with his US counterpart Marco Rubio while in Washington.
In November, chaseing Trump’s election prosper, Jaishankar shelp the country was not anxious about laboring with the US pdwellnt.
