The two leaders discuss strategic partnership, including in sectors like critical and emerging technologies and artificial intelligence
Bali: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, November 15, reviewed the state of India-US strategic partnership, including in sectors like critical and emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, a PTI report in The Tribune Chandigarh, says.
It is understood they also touched upon the Ukraine conflict and its implications in their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in progress here.
A Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) statement said the two leaders also discussed “global and regional developments”.
The MEA said Prime Minister Modi thanked President Biden for his “constant support” for strengthening the India-US partnership.
“He expressed confidence that both countries would continue to maintain close coordination during India’s G-20 Presidency,” it said.
The two leaders also expressed their satisfaction about close cooperation between India and US in new groupings such as Quad and I2U2, the statement said.
While the Quad comprises India, the US, Australia and Japan, the members of the I2U2 are India, Israel, the US and the United Arab Emirates.
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi described the conversation as a “useful exchange”.
The Modi and Biden conversation follows closely on the heels of last week’s meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, on the sidelines of the ASEAN-India Summit.
The two leaders also expressed their satisfaction about close cooperation between India and US in new groupings such as Quad and I2U2, the statement said.
Jaishankar and Blinken discussed a range of issues, including bilateral ties, the Ukraine conflict and the situation in the Indo-Pacific among others.
Since the Ukraine conflict in February this year, Prime Minister Modi has spoken to Russian President Putin as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a number of times.
In a telephonic conversation with Zelenskyy on October 4, Modi said that there can be “no military solution” and that India is ready to contribute to any peace efforts.
A month ealiier in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, Modi in his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin had said that “today’s era is not of war”.
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