Showing posts with label US. Show all posts
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9 June 2016

Modi to Congress: India, US can anchor stability in Asia

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gestures with the traditional Indian greeting as he applauded during his address to a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2016.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday that the world's two largest democracies can anchor stability and prosperity from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific in an aspirational speech that glossed over continuing divisions in the relationship.
Modi, who has ushered in closer bilateral ties since taking power two years ago, said that India and the U.S. have overcome "the hesitations of history" and called for ever-stronger economic and defense links between the two countries.

12 April 2015

Obama-Castro meeting overshadows anti-US line at summit

US President Barack Obama with Cuban President Raul Castro during their meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015. The leaders of the United States and Cuba held their first formal meeting in more than half a century on Saturday, clearing the way for a normalization of relations that had seemed unthinkable to both Cubans and Americans for generations.
As usual when Latin America leftist leaders get together with U.S. officials, there were plenty of swipes at the U.S. during the seventh Summit of the Americas.