{"id":320376,"date":"2020-02-25T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320376"},"modified":"2020-02-25T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:26:14","slug":"india-us-decide-to-take-relationship-to-comprehensive-global-partnership-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-us-decide-to-take-relationship-to-comprehensive-global-partnership-level\/","title":{"rendered":"India, US decide to take relationship to comprehensive global partnership level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320377 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trumpmodi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/trumpmodi.jpg 854w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/trumpmodi-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/trumpmodi-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/trumpmodi-696x443.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/trumpmodi-659x420.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that the two countries have decided to take Indo-US ties to a comprehensive global partnership level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDuring our discussions today, we had a productive exchange on all important aspects of our relationship,\u201d said PM Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a joint press statement with US President Donald Trump, PM Modi said, Yesterday, President Trump received a historical welcome in Motera that will be remembered forever.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have agreed to start negotiations towards a big trade deal; India-US cooperation is important for a rule based international order in Indo-Pacific and Global Commons,\u201d added Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have requested President Trump that talks between the two sides on Totalisation Agreement on social security contributions of Indian professionals in USA be taken forward,&#8221; PM Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both countries inked three MoUs, including one in energy sector. President Donald Trump said in his press statement at a Hyderabad House that a defence deal worth around USD 3 billion has been inked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump said, &#8220;This has been a very productive visit for both of our Countries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump today morning received a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump and Melania Trump paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat, where the US President laid a wreath and observed a minute&#8217;s silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Trumps also planted a tree at Rajghat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that the two countries have decided to take Indo-US ties to a comprehensive global partnership level. \u201cDuring our discussions today, we had a productive exchange on all important aspects of our relationship,\u201d said PM Modi. In a joint press statement with US President Donald Trump, PM Modi said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[64,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320380,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320376\/revisions\/320380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}