The White House is set to host its second foreign leader next week.
President Trump has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House next week for a working visit, a White House official confirmed to The Hill.
Modi will travel to Washington, D.C., for a two-day visit. The invite comes just days after a recent phone call between the two leaders.
The “productive call” touched on expanding U.S.-India cooperation on a number of global issues, which included security in the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe.
The phone call also saw Trump emphasize “the importance of India increasing its procurement of American-made security equipment and moving towards a fair bilateral trading relationship,” the White House said in a statement.
“He is going to be coming to the White House, over next month, probably February. We have a very good relationship with India,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One in January.
The confirmation of the visit follows news that a U.S. military plane with at least 100 migrants aboard landed in India on Wednesday.
The Quad alliance among the U.S., India, Australia and Japan, a bloc formed to counter Chinese clout in the Indo-Pacific, is also expected to come up in talks between the two leaders. India is set to host the Quad leaders’ summit in 2025, according to The Hill.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Trump at the White House this week where the President announced a proposal for the Gaza Strip.
