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US President Joe Biden would host Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a bilateral meeting at the White House on September 24, according to the president’s weekly schedule released.
“The President will participate in a bilateral meeting with His Excellency Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India,” it said on the first meeting between the two leaders on Friday.
Both leaders have spoken virtually on multiple occasions after Biden, a Democrat, became US president in January.
The last time Prime Minister Modi visited the US was in September 2019 when he and then US president Donald Trump, a Republican, addressed the high-profile Howdy-Modi event in Houston.
Biden will also meet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the White House said on the president’s engagements on Friday.
Later on October 24, Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit at the White House with Modi, Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, according to the US president’s weekly schedule.
The four leaders will review progress made since their first virtual Summit on 12 March this year and discuss regional issues of shared interest, the Ministry of External Affairs said last week in New Delhi.
