President Donald Trump on Thursday announced in a press briefing with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India and the United States have agreed to a new energy deal, and that the U.S. will extradite one of the 2008 Mumbai bombers back to India.
Trump and Modi met at the White House for their first official meeting on Thursday, which comes after Modi met with Vice President JD Vance in Paris, France, on Tuesday.
The president said the pair have agreed to strengthen the friendship between India and the U.S. economically by creating a compact that includes a stronger security relationship and a deal on energy.
“Starting this year, we’ll be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars. We’re also giving the way to ultimately provide India with the F 35 stealth fighters,” Trump said. “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.
“India is also reforming its laws to welcome U.S. nuclear technology, which is at the highest level, into the Indian market,” he continued. “This will bring safe, clean, affordable electricity to millions of Indians and 10s of billions of dollars to the US civilian nuclear industry in India.” […]
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