NEW DELHI (AP) – India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet President Barack Obama in Washington in September during a visit aimed at restoring strained relations between the countries.
At a meeting in New Delhi, Modi told U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns that he was accepting an invitation from Obama, the prime minister’s office said in a statement Friday.
Modi said ties between the two democracies would be a powerful force for peace, stability and prosperity in the world.
“Burns conveyed President Obama’s desire to strengthen economic relations” between the countries, the statement said.
Several areas of bilateral interest including new technologies, energy security, counterterrorism and exchange of intelligence were listed in the statement as issues that were likely to figure in the talks between Obama and Modi.