US Envoy,Nancy Powell to meet Narendra Modi: A shift in US stand
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on Tuesday, 11 February 2014
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Nancy Powell, USenvoy to India, is expected to meet Narendra Modi, BJP’s PM candidate, on Thursday in Gandhinagar, signalling a closure to America's blacklist of the BJP Leader & Gujarat CM after almost nine years.
Powell clearly needs to have a talk with the BJP's PM candidate, issues identified with the approaching Lok Sabha surveys and his vision for the nation, sources said.
They said the Ambassador's appeal for the meet has been acknowledged by Modi and definite time and date are constantly solidified. " Most likely, the meeting will take place on Thursday February 13," a source added.
The advancement denotes a significant movement in US stand towards Modi as it has so far declined to have any contact with him on account of the 2002 Gujarat riots. The US has additionally consistently declined to offer visa to him since 2005.
Before Powell’s formal request, the US Embassy authorities as of late held a meeting with some senior authorities of Gujarat government, throughout which the 2002 riots issue is expected to have been talked about in addition to different subjects.
That collaboration evidently set the stage for the meeting between Powell and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.
In Washington, a US State Department agent said, " We can confirm the appointment (between Modi and Powell)."
" This is part of our concerted outreach to senior political and business leaders which began in November to highlight the US-India relationship," the representative said.
The proceed, right before the publication of general decisions in a couple of weeks from now, appears to have been taken after escalated open deliberation inside the different wings of the Obama Administration — the White House and the State Department specifically — with vital inputs from the parts of the Congress, and the compelling pioneers of the corporate segment, the US India Business Council specifically.
In the previous few weeks, an arrangement of open meets organised by compelling research organizations here have had inferred that the BJP-headed by Modi was right now headed to win the approaching general decisions and the US needs to survey its approach to work with him.
Powell clearly needs to have a talk with the BJP's PM candidate, issues identified with the approaching Lok Sabha surveys and his vision for the nation, sources said.
They said the Ambassador's appeal for the meet has been acknowledged by Modi and definite time and date are constantly solidified. " Most likely, the meeting will take place on Thursday February 13," a source added.
The advancement denotes a significant movement in US stand towards Modi as it has so far declined to have any contact with him on account of the 2002 Gujarat riots. The US has additionally consistently declined to offer visa to him since 2005.
Before Powell’s formal request, the US Embassy authorities as of late held a meeting with some senior authorities of Gujarat government, throughout which the 2002 riots issue is expected to have been talked about in addition to different subjects.
That collaboration evidently set the stage for the meeting between Powell and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.
In Washington, a US State Department agent said, " We can confirm the appointment (between Modi and Powell)."
" This is part of our concerted outreach to senior political and business leaders which began in November to highlight the US-India relationship," the representative said.
The proceed, right before the publication of general decisions in a couple of weeks from now, appears to have been taken after escalated open deliberation inside the different wings of the Obama Administration — the White House and the State Department specifically — with vital inputs from the parts of the Congress, and the compelling pioneers of the corporate segment, the US India Business Council specifically.
In the previous few weeks, an arrangement of open meets organised by compelling research organizations here have had inferred that the BJP-headed by Modi was right now headed to win the approaching general decisions and the US needs to survey its approach to work with him.
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