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Barack Obama accepts PM Modi’s invite, to become first US Prez to attend Republic Day parade


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New Delhi, Nov 22, 2014:  In a major diplomatic victory for the NDA government and a massive boost to Indo-American ties, US President Barack Obama on Friday accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invite to be the chief guest at India’s 66th Republic Day Parade on January 26.


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Conforming this the White House tweeted - “At the invitation of Prime Minister Modi, the President will travel to India in January 2015 to participate in the Indian Republic Day celebration in New Delhi as the Chief Guest.

 This visit will mark the first time a U.S. president will have the honor of attending Republic Day, which commemorates the adoption of India’s constitution. The President will meet with the Prime Minister and Indian officials to strengthen and expand the US-India strategic partnership.”

Obama will be the first US President to be the ’Guest of Honour’ on January 26.

PM Modi had posted on Twitter informing of his invite to Prez Obama. He wrote, “This Republic Day, we hope to have a friend over…invited President Obama to be the 1st US President to grace the occasion as Chief Guest.”

 Obama’s acceptance of PM Modi’s invite is seen as United States’ effort to forge new global partnership with India. 

Former US diplomat Nicholas Burns gave a quick reaction over this development saying that ’Obama’s India visit will start a new chapter of Indo-US ties’, as quoted by an English news channel.

Earlier in the day, terming PM Modi’s US visit as "extraordinarily successful", a top official in the Obama administration had said that US-India relationship has come "a remarkable distance".

Barack Obama accepts PM Modi’s invite to attend India’s Republic Day parade

"We’ve just had the extraordinarily successful visit of Prime Minister Modi here to the United States, and an agenda that is working across virtually every issue of importance to us with India that we’re carrying forward," Anthony Blinken, nominee for US Deputy Secretary of State, told Senators during his confirmation hearing.

The invitation to Obama comes weeks after PM Modi’s hugely successful visit to the US. Modi and Obama also met on the sidelines of G20 summit in Brisbane on Nov 14. Obama had called Modi a "man of action."

This will be Obama’s second visit to India. He had visited India in 2010 at the invitation of then prime minister Manmohan Singh and had addressed a joint session of Parliament.

Obama had earlier on September 29 hosted a private dinner for Prime Minister Modi at the White House during the latter’s US visit.

India-US bilateral relations have developed into a global strategic partnership, based on increasing convergence of interests on bilateral, regional and global issues.

Regular exchange of high-level political visits coupled with wide-ranging dialogue architecture has enabled sustained momentum to bilateral cooperation and helped establish a long-term framework for India-US global strategic partnership.

The bilateral cooperation is now broad-based and multi-sectoral, covering trade and investment, defence and security, education, science and technology, cyber security, high technology, civil nuclear energy, space technology and applications, clean energy, environment, agriculture and health. 

 

Courtesy: Zeenews


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