Manmohan Singh to meet Nawaz Sharif in New York

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in New York on Sep 29, a day after Prime minister’s address at the UN General Assembly. In his address at UNGA he would “emphasize the importance of maintaining poverty eradication and inclusive development at the core of the post-2015 development agenda” and India’s “strong conviction that global challenges are best addressed through multilateral approaches, with the United Nations at its centre”.

He will also have bilateral meet with US President Barack Obama on Sep 27 in Washington.

PMO has released one statement before Prime Minister left for US. It described India’s long time strategic partnership with US.

The statement said India sees US as “a long-term partner in our development efforts, and in fostering a global environment that is conducive to our growth.”

“For India, the US remains a key source of technology, investment, innovation and resources, and one of the most important destinations for our goods and services. We have productive and deepening partnerships in trade and investment, defence, counter-terrorism, intelligence, internal security, cyber security, civil nuclear energy, environment, health, higher education, space, science and technology and culture. People-to-people contacts are a strong feature of our engagement. We have also launched development partnership in third countries,” it added.

With Obama, India is looking forward “to discuss a broad range of global and regional developments, and how we can work together to advance our shared interests”.

Prime Minister will also meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New York.

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