‘I should take your autograph…’: US President Joe Biden to PM Narendra Modi
‘I should take your autograph…’: US President Joe Biden to PM Narendra Modi
On the margins of the Quad meeting, President Joe Biden came up to PM Modi and told that he’s been facing a challenge with a deluge of requests from prominent citizens to attend the program of the India’s prime minister
US President Joe Biden asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his autograph after discovering how he has been managing large crowds, ANI news agency reported. On the margins of the G7 Summit, President Joe Biden came up to PM Modi and told that he’s been facing a challenge with a deluge of requests from prominent citizens to attend the program of the India’s prime minister. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese who was also present on the occasion also joined the conversation and added that there is a capacity of 20,000 for the community reception in Sydney but he is still not able to accommodate the requests he is getting.
Both President Biden and PM Albanese quipped about their peculiar challenges to PM Modi.
PM Albanese further recounted how at the Narendra Modi stadium, more than 90,000 people welcomed PM Modi during the victory lap.
To this, Joe Biden told PM, Modi, “I should take your autograph.”
Prime Minister Modi is in Japan to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit.
The prime minister is visiting the East Asian country at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida.
Japan is hosting the G7 summit as the current chair of the powerful grouping.
PM Modi on Saturday said that India will be willing to host the next Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) meeting in 2024.
“We will be happy to host the Quad summit in India in 2024,” PM Modi said in the opening remarks of the Quad meeting held on the sidelines of a Group of Seven Summit (G-7) meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, PM Modi met his British counterpart Rishi Sunak during which they reviewed bilateral strategic partnership, including progress in India-UK FTA negotiations.
The two leaders also agreed to deepen bilateral cooperation across a wide range of areas such as trade and investment and science and technology.
PM Modi also met Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the first time since Russia’s invasion.
Modi told Zelenskiy he was keen to help and that for him the war was an issue of humanity and human values.
“I assure you that for its resolution India, and I personally will do everything within our means,” he said.
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