The meeting between US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week will be keenly watched to see whether the two countries are able to break the ice on the food security issue, paving the way for the implementation of the trade facilitation agreement. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) had failed to reach a consensus in Geneva on the trade facilitation pact in the face of India’s insistence that its proposal on foodgrain stockholding be considered first.
Modi visit fuels WTO solution hope
Gateway House's report India-U.S. Partnership:$1 Trillion by 2030 was quoted in an article in newspaper The Telegraph. The article looks at various possibilities of reviving the India-U.S. bilateral ahead of PM Modi's first official visit to the U.S.