NEW DELHI: PM Modi will travel to Washington from Paris on Feb 12 for his first bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump after the latter’s inauguration last month. His official engagements are scheduled to take place over the next two days, with the summit likely on Feb 13.
Modi will travel to France next week to co-chair an AI summit that President Emmanuel Macron is hosting on Feb 10-11. While Trump too had been invited for the summit, the US is likely to be represented in the meeting by Vice President J D Vance.
With Trump not travelling to Paris, the bilateral summit with Modi will now take place in the US capital. Trump, in fact, had confirmed last week, after a phone conversation with the PM, that he would be visiting the White House in Feb. In what was their first conversation since the Jan 20 inauguration, Trump had raised the two possible sticking points in ties – trade & illegal immigration.