Pence to visit India soon

Simran Sodhi

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 28

United States Vice-President Mike Pence is all set to visit India soon. The announcement follows the confirmation that US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump will also be travelling to India later this year to lead the US delegation for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). 

Both these announcements follow PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US and are being seen as reciprocation gestures by the US as both nations move forward in strengthening their bilateral ties.

Pence shared this information today at a business summit in Washington DC. He said he had accepted Modi’s invite to visit India and was planning to visit India soon. “I was very humbled when PM Modi extended a personal invitation to me to represent the US. And we’re already making plans to take it up on his invitation,” Pence said.

Pence, in his comments at the summit, said the US-India relationship is one of the most important strategic relationships in the 21st century. He expressed confidence that with the commitment shown by both President Trump and PM Modi, “we will usher in a new era of jobs, opportunity, and prosperity — for both our countries, and for all our people.”