Highlights of PM Modi’s Five-Day Visit to Five Different Countries

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a tour on Saturday in which he will primarily visit the United States among four other countries. The highlights of the tour were highlighted by Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Friday afternoon, which were as follows:

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave on Saturday for Afghanistan, where he will inaugurate the India-Afghanistan Friendship Dam with President Ghani. He will then leave for Qatar.
  
• From Qatar he will leave for Switzerland on Sunday evening, from where he will leave for the US, landing in Washington on 6 June.
  
• On 6 June he has three programs; he will visit a cemetery for wreath-laying, followed by two events at Blair House where he happens to be staying. First is a meeting with heads of American think tanks, and then a function involving repatriation of cultural property – Indian antiquities in the US being returned to India.
  
• On 7 June, he will meet President Barack Obama followed by lunch, and in the evening he will meet business leaders and address a US-India Business Council Meeting. Between the two meetings, Defence Secretary Ash Carter will call on the PM.
  
• On 8 June, he will address a joint session of the US Congress. That will be followed by a joint reception of house and senate companies on foreign relations and Indian corpus, followed by a brief community reception. On the same day in the afternoon, he will leave for Mexico.
  

(With ANI inputs.)