Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States from 24-29 September during which he will attend sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and multilateral and bilateral talks in New York, before travelling to California’s Silicon Valley to interact with technology innovators like Google, Apple, and Tesla.
24th – 25th September | New York:
Narendra Modi will attend the UN Sustainable Development Summit which will lay down the new Sustainable Development Goals.
Modi will host a meeting of the G4 nations – Brazil, Germany, India and Japan to discuss reforms to the UN Security Council, where the four nations will support the others candidacy to become permanent members of the UNSC.
A working dinner for groups of Fortune 500 CEOs will be hosted by Modi. Heads of Ford Motors, Lockheed Martin, IBM, PepsiCo, Dupont, Merck, Qualcomm Inc, and Abbott Laboratories are expected to attend the dinner.
26th September | California:
Narendra Modi will travel to California, the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the U.S. West Coast in more than 30 years.
He will visit the Google Campus, as well as the Tesla Motors headquarters.
Narendra Modi will speak a round table discussion at Stanford University to discuss sustainable renewable energy.
Modi will host “India-US startup Konnect” an event organised by NASSCOM, TiE Silicon Valley and IIM Ahmedabad’s business incubator CIIE – where Indian start-ups will present their products to an American gathering.
27th September | California:
Narendra Modi will attend a townhall-style question-and-answer session organised at by Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park.
In the evening, Modi will address the Indian diaspora community at the SAP Center in San Jose.
28th September | New York:
Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama will hold a bilateral talk to discuss renewable energy, avenues of energy partnership and trade.
Modi will also hold a meeting with UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, where he will discuss the need to stay course in the UN Security Council reforms.
Narendra Modi will attend a summit on peacekeeping hosted by Obama, Modi is expected to make an address at the summit considering India’s extensive history in peacekeeping operations around the world.
India-U.S. Trade:
Total Trade (2014): $101.8 billion
Total Indian Import (2014): $21.6 billion
Total Indian Exports (2014): $80.2 billion
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