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12/04/2022

author name Arab Times

publish time

12/04/2022

WASHINGTON, April 11: US President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and tackled the destabilizing impacts of Russia's war against Ukraine, with a particular focus on global food supply. The two leaders also inaugurated the fourth US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. In a press release by the White House, "together, they committed to strengthening the US-India relationship through cooperation on clean energy, technology and military cooperation, and expanded economic and people-to-people ties."

President Joe Biden meets virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, is (center), and India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is (right). (AP)

They also committed to continue cooperation, bilaterally and multilaterally, on ending the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening global health security, advancing global food security, and ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific. They emphasized their shared commitment, as leaders of the world's largest democracies, to respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. President Biden and Prime Minister Modi looked forward to meeting in person later this spring, in Tokyo, for the Quad summi, the statement concluded.(KUNA)