Nikita Yadav
BBC News, Delhi
Reuters
Modi and Trump shared warm relationships during the first term of the American president
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States next week and will meet President Donald Trump, says the White House.
Other reports indicate that Moda will attend a dinner organized by the American president during the two -day trip. The dates of the official work visit have not yet been announced.
Modi will be among the first foreign leaders to meet Trump in the White House during his second term. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in Washington and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is due this week.
Modi and Trump shared warm relationships during the first term of the American president. Last week, they held a “productive” telephone call and discussed immigration, security and illegal commercial ties, the White House said.
Analysts say that it will be interesting to see if the bonhomie between the two men will help overcome the concerns about trade and immigration.
Trump described Modi as a “big leader” last year, but also accused India to charge excessive prices.
Confirmation of the Indian chief’s visit to Washington occurred shortly after a US military flight expelling approximately 100 Indian nationals landed in the state of Punjab.
All those on board would have either entered the United States illegally or exceeded their visas.
During last week’s call, Trump said he was sure that India “would do the right thing” when it comes to illegal immigration.
He made the massive expulsion of undocumented foreign nationals a key policy. Earlier, Bloomberg said that 18,000 unleashed Indian migrants illegally living in the United States had so far been identified, but the actual number is probably higher.
According to the Pew Research Center, there were around 725,000 undenial undeniable undenial immigrants in the United States last year.
India has so far escaped the threat of prices on its exports to the United States.
In the past, however, Trump has described India as a “pricing king” and a “great aggressor” of commercial ties and threatened a reciprocal action if Delhi did not reduce taxes on American imports.
The recent budget of India has seen reduced functions on a range of goods, including high -end motorcycles such as the emblematic Harley Davidson.
The secretary in finance of India told local media that it was a sign that the country was “not a pricing king”.
Last week, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the two countries were trying to further deepen their bilateral relations.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jaishankar, represented India at the inauguration ceremony of Trump and had interviews with his American counterpart Marco Rubio in Washington.
In November, after Trump’s electoral victory, Jaishankar said that the country was not nervous at the idea of working with the American president.
