Briefing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s America visit(Video)

New Delhi, 23 September 2014

Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Spokesperson shares the details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming America visit. The video is over one hour in length and includes the question and answer round. Prime Minister will have total 35 engagements during his America visit according to spokesperson.

Summary(barring United Nations event):

Meeting with US President Obama will take place on the 29th as well as on 30th in Washington. PM Modi will also meet Vice President an Secretary of state, Secretary of defense. He is meeting four major leaders of the administration. He will also meet Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton on Monday, 29th September in New York. He will meet Speaker in Washington.

The first meeting once he arrives in New York is to meet Mayor of New York on 26th in the evening. Also he will meet the former Mayor of New York on 27th. Apart from these two meetings at city level, PM will meet Governors of three states; New York, South Carolina and Maryland.

There will be a breakfast meeting with 11 major CEOs on 29 September. Chairman of Google, Cargill Corporation head, City group CEO, Merc and company CEO, Caterpillar CEO
MasterCard CEO, Pepsi CEO and several others are among them. PM will have one-to-one meeting with six individual CEOs including Boeing, GE, Golden Sacs, IBM. When he is in Washington, the US India Business Council will host a reception participated by 300-400 businessmen on 30th in Washington.

There are three events related to Indian community. Address by PM on the 28th which is Sunday. On the same day, the ambassador of India is hosting a dinner where prominent Indian nationals, PIOs, NRIs will remain present. PM will meet representatives of organization of Sikh community from America and Canada on 28th. All community events are on Sunday, the 28th.

The first major address will be at Global Citizens Festival on 27th evening in Central park. The 2nd address will be at Madison square garden and the third on 30th in Washington at US India business council.

PM will meet leading Jewish community members.He will also meet members of International council.

He will pay homage at 9/11 memorial on the 27th, Saturday ahead of his address to United Nations General assembly. He will also pay homage at Lincon memorial, Martin Luther king memorial and Mahatma Gandhi statue in Washington.

Narendra Modi’s dietary preferences are indicated to hosts.

These are some details of the hectic schedule of Prime Minister Modi’s stay of over 4 days in America.