New Delhi: Giving a detailed schedule of PM Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to the United States and Egypt on June 21, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra on Monday said that this will be PM’s first state-level visit to the US and is a milestone visit in the relationship between the two countries.
“It is a very significant visit, a very important visit. A visit on which there is a genuine and widespread deep interest in the United States…,” Kwatra told reporters here.
This will be PM Modi’s first state-level visit to the US and is on a visit from June 21 to 23 at the invitation of US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
Kwatra said defence industrial cooperation roadmap will be a key outcome of PM Modi’s US visit.
Apart from showcasing bilateral defence cooperation, he said the second key component has been strong trade and investment partnership, he said.
“Third is the technology component which interfaces with many other domains – telecom, space, manufacturing and investment,” he added.
On the first day of arrival to Washington DC, Kwatra said that the first key engagement will be an event that would focus on scaling for future “which would try to bring out key complementarities and the objectives that both systems seek to promote and achieve”.
On June 22, there will be a ceremonial welcome at the White House, a set of bilateral meetings, PM’s scheduled address to the US Congress, and a ceremonial state dinner, he said.
After the PM Modi will visit Egypt on June 24-25 after concluding his trip to the US.
It will be PM Modi’s first visit to the Middle East nation and first official bilateral visit of an Indian PM to Egypt since 1997, Kwatra said.
