Hiroshima [Japan], May 21 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his autograph after discovering how he has been managing giant crowds, in keeping with sources.
Yesterday throughout the Quad assembly, President Joe Biden got here as much as PM Modi and instructed that he is been dealing with a problem with a deluge of requests from distinguished residents to attend this system of PM Modi.
To this, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese who was additionally current on the event added that there’s a capability of 20,000 for the neighborhood reception in Sydney however he’s nonetheless not in a position to accommodate the requests he’s getting.
Both President Biden and PM Albanese complained to PM Modi about their peculiar challenges.
PM Albanese additional remembered how on the Narendra Modi stadium, greater than 90,000 individuals welcomed PM Modi throughout the victory lap.
To this, Joe Biden instructed PM Modi, “I should take your autograph.”PM Modi is in Japan to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan.
The prime minister is visiting the East Asian nation on the invitation of his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida.
Japan is internet hosting the G7 summit as the present chair of the highly effective grouping. PM Modi is in Hiroshima for the G7 summit from May 19 to 21.
PM Modi on Saturday mentioned that India will likely be prepared to host the following Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue assembly in 2024.
“We will be happy to host the Quad summit in India in 2024,” PM Modi mentioned within the opening remarks of the Quad assembly held on the sidelines of a Group of Seven Summit (G-7) assembly within the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima.
PM Modi was addressing leaders of the US, Australia, and Japan, which together with Japan represent the casual strategic discussion board known as the Quadrilateral Grouping whose main goal is working for a free, open, affluent, and inclusive Indo-Pacific area.
“Quad will continue to make efforts towards global good, welfare of the people, prosperity and peace,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned.
Earlier this week, the deliberate summit of Quad leaders from the US, India, Australia, and Japan in Sydney was cancelled after US President Biden withdrew from his go to as a consequence of ongoing debt restrict talks in Washington.
However, the White on Friday (native time) agreed to carry the summit in Japan’s Hiroshima.
“After President Biden had to postpone his trip to Australia, the Quad leaders agreed that they would hold their summit in Hiroshima to ensure that the four leaders could come together to mark the Quad’s progress over the past year. So tomorrow, in addition to the G7, President Biden will participate in the third in-person Quad Leaders’ meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India,” learn an announcement by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Biden scrapped his deliberate journey to Sydney in addition to a historic go to to Papua New Guinea. The resolution — which prompted Albanese to cancel the scheduled Quad summit — was seen as a self-inflicted blow to hopes of a extra seen US presence within the Indo-Pacific amid its competitors with China within the area.
US President Biden thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida for agreeing to take part within the Quad assembly on the sidelines of the G7 summit right here.
The White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in an announcement on Friday (native time) mentioned that Quad leaders agreed to carry their summit in Hiroshima to make sure that the 4 leaders might come collectively to mark the Quad’s progress over the previous yr.
“Along with sharing strategic assessments, the leaders will welcome new forms of Quad cooperation on secure digital technology, submarine cables, infrastructure capacity building, and maritime awareness,” the assertion added. (ANI)