Joe Biden, who is accompanied by his wife Jill, was received by Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai as his aircraft landed at the Indian Air Force station, Palam
The Visit by Joe Biden is the first visit by a U.S. Vice President to India in nearly 30 years.Biden’s trip, which will include meetings with Indian counterpart Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with President Pranabh Mukherjee and Sushma Swaraj of the BJP on July 23, will focus on four areas of cooperation: economic cooperation, energy and climate, defence and regional cooperation in South and East Asia.
Accompanied by his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, who will seek to infuse a new energy into bilateral collaborations in health and education cooperation while she is here, Mr. Biden will emphasise the people-to-people and business connections between India and the U.S., officials noted, and his agenda will include meetings with numerous corporate leaders, a policy speech at the Bombay Stock Exchange on July 24, and a women’s empowerment event IIT Mumbai on July 25
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden visits the Gandhi memorial in New Delhi along with his wife Jill Biden (third from right), U.S. Ambassador Nancy Powell (second from left) and Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, on Monday July 22,2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden during a meeting at 7 RCR in New Delhi on Tuesday July 23,2013
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