PM Modi leaves for US, to address UNGA and attend Quad Leaders’ Summit

PM Narendra Modi departed from New Delhi on Wednesday (September 22) for a three-day visit to the US to attend the first in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit, hold bilateral meetings, and address the United Nations General Assembly.

During his visit to Washington starting on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the Quad summit convened by President Joe Biden and hold a series of bilateral meetings with leaders.

The Quad summit on Friday with Prime Ministers, Yoshihide Suga of Japan and Scott Morrison of Australia, will be the first in-person summit of the leaders of the four countries that are focused on the Indo-Pacific region.

It will likely be the last for Suga, who has announced that he is stepping down from the prime ministership.

Soon after landing in Washington, Modi will participate in the Covid-19 summit that Biden has convened.

According to an administration official, the summit aims to "rally the world urgently to work towards ending this pandemic as rapidly as possible and building our systems better, to be able to handle the next pandemic."

Modi is also expected to meet with business leaders.

(With agency inputs)