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[Applause] thank you very much thank you very much please great honor I'm thrilled to welcome the prime minister of India my friend Narendra Modi back to the White House we spent a lot of time here and a lot of time in India and he's a very special man prime minister it is a pleasure to extend to you the same Hospitality that you showed Melania and myself when we traveled to your beautiful country 5 years ago it's hard to believe so long ago and it seemed like yesterday it was beautiful we opened the Cricket Stadium 129,000

seats I think the largest stadium in the world and it was uh an incredible period of time uh there is truly a special bond between the United States and India in the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy and I believe uh the world's largest country in terms of the numbers of people and today the Prime Minister and I are announcing a framework to strengthen those ties even further economically and the US India compact for the 21st century is a historic initiative that will deepen every aspect of our partnership and our friendship starting this

year will be increasing in military sales to India by many billions of dollars we're also Paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F35 stealth fighters in 2017 my Administration revived and reinvigorated the quad security partnership in our meeting today the Prime Minister and I reaffirmed that strong cooperation among the United States India Australia and Japan and it's crucial really to maintaining peace and prosperity Tranquility even in the indopacific in addition the United States and India will be working together like never before to confront the threat of radical Islamic terrorism a threat all over

the world actually today I'm pleased to announce that my Administration has approved the extradition of one of the plotters and one of the very evil people of the world and uh having to do with the horrific 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack to face Justice in India so he's going to be going back to India face justice as we deepen our defense partnership will also strengthen our economic ties and bring greater fairness and reciprocity to our trading relationship as a signal of good faith Prime Minister Modi recently announced the reductions to India's unfair very strong tariffs that

limit us access into the Indian market very strongly in really it's big problem I must say India imposes a 30 to 40 to 60 and even 70% tariff on so many of the goods and in some cases far more than that and as an example a 70% tariff On Us cars going into India which makes it pretty much impossible to sell those cars today the US uh trade deficit with India is almost hundred billion and Prime Minister Modi and I have agreed that we'll be begin negotiations to address the long running disparities that should have

been taken care of over the last four years but they didn't do that in the US India trading relationship with the goal of a signing an agreement and we want uh really we want a certain Level Playing Field which we really think we're entitled to and and and he does also unfairness so we're going to work on that very hard and we can make up the difference very easily with the deficit with the sale of oil and gas LNG of which we have more than anybody in the world the Prime Minister and I also reached

an important agreement on energy that will restore the United States as a leading supplier of oil and gas to India it will be hopefully their number one supplier and the groundbreaking development for US nuclear industry India is also reforming its laws to welcome US nuclear technology which is at the highest level into the Indian market this will bring safe clean and affordable electricity to millions of Indians and tens of billions of dollars to the US civilian nuclear industry in India and under the framework we are announcing today the United States and India are also joining

forces to ensure that artificial intelligence and other Advanced Technologies are developed by the two of the most really true of the most advanced Nations uh intellectually and otherwise technologically anywhere in the world there's nobody very much closer we have an incredible relationship there and those are this is where it's seems to be heading and artificial intelligence complex a very complex subject but it seems to be where people want to be and they want to go and we're leading right now by a lot but other people will try to catch us I don't know if they're

going to be able to we're going to make it available we're going to make tremendous amounts of electricity available we're going to let uh the people that are buying the electricity make their own electric plants electric generation plants and we've never done this in our country but we're going to get it done very quickly Lee zeldon and his group are going to get the approvals uh in very rapid form and we're calling it a national emergency and that's exactly what it is so we're going to be we're going to remain at the top of the

AI or artificial intelligence I think for a long time to come and we're going to be working very closely with India and other countries on that but right now we're the Leader by quite a bit finally we agreed to work together to help build one of the greatest trade routes in all of history it will run from India to Israel to Italy and onward to the United States connecting our partners by ports Railways and undersea cables many many undersea cables it's a big it's a big development it's a lot of money going to be spent

and we've already spent some but we're going to be spending a lot more in order to stay Advanced and stay the leader I'm pleased to report that with today's announcements the friendship between the United States and India is the strongest I believe it's ever been I think our relationship is the best it's ever been between two leaders of the two countries and it's an honor to say that I'd like to now invite the prime minister to say a few words and then we'll take some questions and uh we appreciate you all being here thank you

very much thank you [Applause] very your Excellency president Trump delegates of both countries friends from the media namaskar I would like to first of all express my heartfelt gratitude to my dear friend president Trump for the grand welcome and Hospitality accorded to me president Trump's leadership has been instrumental in n nurturing India us ties and making them vibrant I could feel today the same enthusiasm the same the same enthusiasm the same energy the same commitment that we had worked with during our first term our discussions today highlighted our pride in our accomplishments during his first

term the Deep Mutual trust that we share and also the resolve to attain new goals we also agreed that the partnership and cooperation between IND India and the US can shape a better world friends the people of America are aware of President Trump's motto make America great again or Maga the people of America are well aware of it the people of India too are focusing on both Heritage and and development as they move forward at a fast pace and with a firm resolve to ensure a developed India by 2047 if I were to say this

borrowing an expression from America our vision for a developed India is to make India great again or meiger when America and India work together that is when Maga when it's Maga plus migga it becomes Mega a mega partnership for prosperity and it is this Mega spirit that gives new scale and scope to our objectives friends today we have also set ourselves the target of more than doubling our bilateral trade to attain $500 billion doar by 2030 our teams will work on concluding very soon a mutually beneficial Trade Agreement in order to ensure India's energy security

we will focus on trade in oil and gas investment in energy infrastructure will also increase in the area of nuclear energy we also discussed increasing cooperation on small modular reactors friends America plays an important role in India's defense preparedness as strategic and trusted Partners we are moving forward actively towards joint development joint production and transfer of technology in the times to come as well new technologies and Equipment will enhance our capacities we have decided to launch the autonomous systems industry Alliance and a defense cooperation framework for the next decade will be prepared defense interoperability Logistics

repair and maintenance will also be its key components friends the 21st century is a technology driven Century close cooperation in the area of Technology between countries that believe in Democratic Values can give New Direction strength and opportunities to the entire Humanity India and the US will jointly work in areas of artificial intelligence semiconductors Quantum biotechnology and several other Technologies today we also agreed on trust which stands for transforming relationships utilizing strategic technology under this our Focus will be on establishing strong Supply chains for critical minerals Advanced Materials and pharmaceuticals we have also decided to launch

a recovery and processing Initiative for strategic minerals like lithium and rare Earths we have had close cooperation with the US in the area of space the Nisar satellite developed with mutual cooperation between ISRO and NASA will soon be flying into space on an Indian launch vehicle friends partnership between India and the US strengthens democracy and strengthens democratic values and systems we will work together to enhance peace stability and prosperity in the the Indo Pacific the quad will play a special role in this during the Cod Summit scheduled to be held in India this year we

will expand cooperation in new areas with our partner countries under the iMac and I2 You2 we will work together for the development of of economic corridors and in the area of connectivity India and us will stand strongly together in the fight against terrorism we agree that in order to eliminate crossb terrorism we need concrete actions and I'm very grateful to president Trump that he uh in 2008 somebody who carried out genocide in India that criminal is now going to be handed over to India and I'm grateful to president Trump for this and appropriate action will

be taken in the courts in India friends the Indian Community Living in the US is an important Link in our relations in order to further deepen Are People to People TI India will soon open new consulates in Los Angeles and Boston these will be new consulates we have invited American universities and educational institutes to open their offshore campuses in India president Trump I am grateful to you for your friendship and strong commitment towards India the people of India still fondly remember your visit in 2020 and hope that President Trump will come and visit them again

on behalf of 1.4 billion Indians I invite you to visit India thank you thank you very much thank you thank you very much Beau okay thank you very much it was excellent H we'll do a few questions please please go ahead please go ahead yeah yeah blue shirt um thank you Mr President uh people in India will naturally welcome your decision to extra diet tabana to India back home in that context I would like to ask you a question about in last few years we have seen several groups in the US being raising anti-india voice

calling about separation terrorism activities in India do you think that should continue here in the US as well you're going to have to go louder uh Mr President people India would be welcoming your decision to extradite tabur to I can't understand what are he saying may I sir may I may I sir go ahead back there Mr President thank you um first I want to ask question um you and the president you both spoke about combating Isis you you both sounded very exciting about this excited about this partnership um upcoming and I I was curious

how much more confident are you with President Trump leading this country that there will be peace through strength and you will have a s successful partnership with the United States versus um with uh Biden's incompetence and weakness over the last four years that's your question but I'll answer it I agree with you yeah gross incompetence uh we're going to have a fantastic relationship and it has been look The Whole World's been set back over the last four years by the weakness of the United States the weak leadership of the United States but I think we've

taken care of it in just three weeks it seems to me that even uh some of the media that we wouldn't prefer has been writing that this is a much different country right now that the world has a light over it not only our country but the whole world uh the Prime Minister told me that before too even over India the world has a light they need the United States to be strong and powerful but good and I think that's happened and I think it's happened in a very short period of time but I will

tell you we're going to have a fantastic relationship and it'll make both countries much stronger yes go ahead please Okay g mun from India today sir I'll just take my colleague L ja's question forward because you can understand fine um the question is about um the fact that you've uh decided to extradite theana thank you so much India has been waiting to to have him back in India to bring him to justice but there are many other elements in uh the United States of America particularly khalistani separatists who've been working against Indian interests how is

the United States of America going to cooperate on that front with India there are there have been allegations that have been leveled against Indian agencies by the Biden Administration are you going to relook that with uh Tulsi Gabbert as dni now well I don't think India had a very good relationship with the Biden Administration Biden they wouldn't sell them oil and gas which is rather hard to believe because you know it's a good thing to do and uh a lot of things happened that weren't very appropriate I thought between India and the administration the Biden

Administration but uh as you said we're giving a very violent man it seems to me I mean I don't know that he's been convicted yet or will be but uh let's assume he's a pretty violent person we're giving him back to India immediately and uh there are more to follow because we have quite a few requests so we work with India on crime and we want to make it good for India and it's very important so that kind of a relationship is very important to us okay go ahead please um go ahead thank you uh

Mr President you've repeatedly called India big abuser of trade and said it is really difficult to do business in India because of tariffs uh you announced reciprocal tariffs today uh I'm hoping you can speak about uh what kind of reciprocal tariffs India can expect are you willing to make any concessions uh and how can India head off uh these tariffs I also have one for the Prime Minister Well India has been uh to us just about the highest tariffed Nation anywhere in the world they've been very strong on tariffs and I don't blame them necessarily

but it's a different way of doing business it's it's very hard to sell into India because they have trade barriers very strong tariffs we are right now a reciprocal Nation we are going to if it's India or if it's somebody else with low tariffs we're going to have the same we're going to have whatever India charges we're charging them whatever another country charges we're charging them so it's called re reciprocal which I think is a very fair way we didn't have that we uh I was going to do that in my other term and we

had the greatest economy ever in the world we've never there's never been an economy like we had and then we got hit with Co we had a focus on that and I wasn't really in the mood to be putting it on Italy and Spain and France and India frankly and a lot of other countries because the world was very troubled until we got rid of that nightmare but we had the strongest economy anywhere in the world during that fairly long period of time during my first term as you know and uh we didn't do the

tariffs uh we would have done the reciprocal tariffs but uh we decided and I decided I think on a human basis on a Humane basis not to do them because of the fact that there was such suffering all over the world the last thing we needed to talk about is trade problems but now we do we're doing uh we see a tremendous future for our country but we felt that now it's finally time after 45 or 50 years of abuse that we will do and this isn't India this is among a lot of Nations the

European Union is very difficult for us very very difficult they they tax our companies at levels that nobody's ever seen before they take advantage of a lot of things so we're not happy about that China of course is terrible and uh we've never taken in 10 cents until I was President we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars from China since I've been president in first term and now and uh we have to do that just as a mechanism of fairness and that's what I've done and so we are being reciprocal with India whatever India

charges we charge them so frankly it no longer matters to us that much what they charge because whatever they charge uh I had discussions with India and the first term about the fact that their tariffs were very high and I was unable to get a concession so we're just going to do it the easy way and we're just going to say whatever you charge we charge and I think that's fair for the people of the United States and I think it's actually fair for India okay to make concession sir are you willing to make any

concession sir any concession go ahead please ask to the prime question for the Prime Minister please ask to the Prime Minister please yes sorry uh Yosh Singh with press Trust of India prime minister thank you Mr President uh prime minister the US is uh giving a lot of push to curb illegal immigration and India has been cooperating on this issue uh how does India see this issue in the larger context thank you I don't think this is a question that is about India only but even globally you can talk about this issue and uh we

are of the opinion that anybody who enters another country illegally they they have absolutely no right to be in that country and as far as India and the US is concerned we have always been of the same opinion and that is that any verified Indian who is in the US illegally we are fully prepared to take them back to India however it doesn't stop there these are children of very ordinary families and they are lured by Big Dreams and big promises a lot of them are brought in without them knowing about why they're going to

a country and in fact they are connected with a human trafficking system and we have to make sure that we fight against this system as far as the US and India is concerned I think what we should do is make efforts to make sure that we uproot these uh from within the system so that we can reduce or remove uh human trafficking and basically the the the young vulnerable poor people of India are fooled into coming over as illegal immigrants and our bigger fight actually is against this ecosystem or this system that encourages such gangs

to thrive and I can tell you that India will completely support your Endeavor in achieving this thank you thank you Mr President um the question for the Prime Minister Modi first if I may um I wanted to ask you um did you discuss any possible business deals with Elon Musk during your uh your meetings today uh Mr Prime Minister and Mr President I wanted to ask you um today you spoke about uh hoping to have um three-way talks with President Z and President Putin what would you say to um European leaders and other allies who

may be concerned that you're um apparently more keen to speak to America's uh adversaries than to its allies thank you well maybe I'll just go and first on this one uh we had uh some talks and we uh told the European Union we told tell the NATO people largely they overlap uh you have to pay more money because it's unfair what we're doing we're doing a tremendous amount more with probably $200 billion do more going into uh Ukraine using for Ukraine to fight and Europe has not really carried its weight in terms of uh the

money it's not Equitable and we want to see a counterbalance we want to have them put up more money they have to knew that at the same time we had a very good conversation with President Putin the other day yesterday and we also had a very good conversation I did both in both cases uh with president zalinski and uh I think we're going to be able to do something I think we're going to be able to make a deal and I hope so because it's a horrible War it's a very terrible bloody war with a

million and a half soldiers at least already dead on the battlefield lying all over the fields like nobody's ever seen anything like it since certainly since the Second World War and uh so I think we're going to be able to do something we're working with uh president zalinski and with President Putin and my impression is that they I know that president zalinski wants to make a deal and I also feel that I know that President Putin wants to make a deal I wanted to know that before I began any detailed discussions but uh the meeting

and the the conversation also the meeting with Steve witkoff and Moscow was a very successful one and my phone call with him was a very successful one please as uh you asked a question regarding Elon uh musk I have known him for a very long time I was not even a prime minister at the time when I first met him I was chief minister and uh today he came to meet me along with all his family with his children and uh so we had a nice discussion as far as deal eeve is concerned e are

concerned the EV uh the word EV has a copyright uh and that is uh one person who has a copyright for the word Eevee and that is Trump thank you Mr President can I ask whether you discussed all today the case of gatam adani who's one of the wealthiest men in Asia and perceived as an ally of Prime Minister Modi Prime Minister Modi have you asked the president to take action on that case thank you firstly India is a democratic country and our culture and our thought philosophy isum which basically means that the entire world

is a family every Indian is my own family member and when it comes to such personal matters two leaders of two countries will not get together on that topic and discuss anything on an individual matter go ahead please yeah please sir go ahead please yes thank you Mr President um thank you Mr Prime Minister I have a question for you as well but Mr President you have suggested with regards to the Russia Ukraine war you've suggested several things that Ukraine should give up the idea of NATO membership territory that was seized back in 2014 by

Russia what should Russia give up uh Russia has gotten themselves into something that I think they wish they didn't if I were president it would not have happened absolutely would not have happened and it didn't happen for four years if you look at uh what has taken place under President Bush they lost a lot under uh President Obama they lost Crimea under Biden it looks like they could lose the whole thing under Trump they lost nothing Ukraine lost nothing they didn't give up anything and uh you take a look at the other three presidents surrounding

me uh they gave up a lot uh I think that when you look at Ukraine and when you look at the mess that they're in uh it's got to be ended and it's got to be stopped now Russia's taken over a pretty big chunk of territory uh and they also uh have said from day one long before President Putin they've said they cannot have Ukraine be in NATO they said that very strongly I actually think that that was the thing that c caused the start of the war and uh Biden said it and zalinsky said

it and I think that was one of the reasons one of the starts of the war but from long before Putin they said you cannot have uh you cannot have Ukraine going in in any way into NATO and I start from that standpoint I think everybody knew that now if a better deal can be NE negotiated if uh they are able to make a deal where they can do that that's fine with me I really don't care I want I want that Bloodshed to stop I don't want to see you know we have an ocean

between us and the site we're talking about the s of death we're calling it the fields of death we have a big ocean in between us this is more important for Europe we shouldn't be in they have to equalize and they're going to have to do it fast but they have to equalize but as far as uh the negotiation it's too early to say what's going to happen uh maybe Russia will give up a lot maybe they won't and it's all dependent on what is going to happen the negotiation really hasn't started but I will

say as far as NATO is concerned from many years before President Putin I will tell you that I've heard that Russia would never accept that and I think Ukraine knew that because Ukraine wasn't in and never requested to be until more recently so that's the way it is and I think that's the way it's going to have to be go ahead please all right go ahead please with a tie with a tie yeah Mr President uh yes go ahead pleas this s Shukla from News Mobile Mr President you spoke about Prime Minister Modi as a

tough negotiator who was a tougher negotiator today and who has a better negotiating tactic when it comes to terorist oh he's a much tougher negotiator than me and he's a much better negotiator than me there's not even a contest okay yeah go ahead please go ahead go ahead Reena bwat from AI uh how do you see this relationship between in the India and the United States to counter China and uh what is your Vision when it comes to India uh you know brokering peace um in the Ukraine and Russia conflict well I think we going

to have a very good relationship with China I got along with President Chief very well until Co that was a bridge too far but until then I got along with President CH very very well we were very close as Leaders go I don't want to be naive but uh as Leaders go I think we were very close and I think that China is a very important player in the world world I think they can help us get this war over with Ukraine and Russia and uh I look at India I do see the skirmishes on

the border which are quite vicious and I guess they continue to go on uh if I could be of help I'd love to help because that should be stopped that's been going on for a long time and it's quite violent it's quite violent but uh I would hope that China and India and Russia and us and all of us can get along it's very important uh you know the power of Weaponry today is and not only nuclear but nuclear in particular the power of Weaponry is very important I said before that I had uh very

constructive talks uh in my first term with President Putin about the denuclearization of the two countries and then we were going to go to China after we worked some kind of a deal and we had the confines of a deal we we were I thought we he really wanted to do it so did I didn't nuclearized and it's so it's such a beautiful term when you think about it in other words to bring it down because the power of those weapons is is too great and uh I did speak to president XI about that and

I was getting also a very good response he's uh building a very strong nuclear power he's not very close to Russia or the United States right now but he will be soon I mean he'll he'll catch up over the period of four or five years they say uh but it would be a great thing if we could on a military basis we're going to spend this year 900 let's say $915 billion doll on Military uh Russia without the war was spending close to a 100 but with the War I can't tell you what they're spending

but they're spending a lot and China is spending $ 4450 billion we're over $900 billion and I said you know it doesn't really make sense ases it we're spending the money against each other and we could spend that money for better purpose if we got along and I I'll tell you I think that uh something like that will happen first when I left as you know four years ago we didn't have Israel and the Middle East we didn't have October 7th a disaster the disaster nothing was happening Iran was not in going to do anything

because Iran did not have much money at that point they were broke they were totally broke they didn't have money for Hamas or for Hezbollah and you didn't have Russia with Ukraine and that would never have happened but now I come back and I have the whole world is on fire so I have to put out the fires but after I put out the fires I'm going to meet with China and I'm going to meet with Russia and we're going to see if we can deescalate if we can bring it down military especially as it

pertains to nuclear [Music] please mic please uh prime minister uh how do you see India's role you have had discussions with uh president Trump about deescalation uh the conflict in Russia and Ukraine as you know I have been in constant contact with both Russia and Ukraine I have also visited both countries and uh many peoples are mistaken and they feel that India is neutral I would like to clarify India is not neutral we have taken a side and we have taken the side of peace and it is uh based on this principle of ours that

uh in the presence of uh President Putin I clearly said in front of the media that this is not the era of war and even today it is my conviction that Solutions cannot be found on the battlefield ultimately you have to come to the negotiating table and India has constantly made efforts that there are talks that take place where both parties are present it is only then that we will find a solution the efforts being made by President Trump I support them I welcome them and I would like that President Trump is successful as soon

as possible so that the world is on the path to peace once again everybody thank you very much thank you very much and I very much appreciate the Prime Minister visiting our great country and I do really appreciate it we have so much in common and all all we want to do is have peace and we want to have strength and we want to have lots of different things together but uh the relationship with India and with the Prime Minister has never been better thank you very much thank you thank you