PM Narendra Modi meets President Barack Obama: As it happened

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Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama met at the White House on Tuesday. This was the seventh meeting between them.

After the meeting they addressed a joint press conference during which PM Modi thanked Obama for supporting India's MTCR, NSG bid.

At the same time, India and the US promised to work together for the sake of global peace and security and the benefit of developing countries.

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Leaders reaffirmed support for a reformed UNSC with India as permanent member and for addressing global development and security challenges: FS.

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Terrorism was also the focus of the discussion. There was disccusion on how to deepen US-India colalboration against terrorism. US is comfortable supporting our initiative of Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT): FS.