The much-anticipated meeting between President Obama and PM Modi is scheduled in New York next week.
Building on their economic ties, the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama is likely to strengthen political and security cooperation in Asia and around the world, according to the White House.
"We are deeply committed to strengthening the US-Indian relationship, building our economic and commercial ties, advancing our political and security cooperation in Asia and around the world," US Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said yesterday.
The meeting would give the two leaders an opportunity to move ahead on the discussions they had in New Delhi in January when Mr Obama travelled to India to attend the Republic Day Parade as its chief guest.
Mr Rhodes said, "Notably, India will be critical to a successful global effort to combat climate change, so the two leaders will certainly address their shared vision of how to approach the upcoming meetings in Paris."
The much-anticipated meeting between President Obama and PM Modi is scheduled in New York next week. One of the focus areas during it will be climate change.
"The President's meeting with Prime Minister Modi will be very important because India, of course, is also another major economy - major emitter and we'll want to continue the discussions that we had in India about what Prime Minister Modi is prepared to do to support successful international action against climate change," said Mr Rhodes.
Earlier, the Indian Ambassador to the US, Arun K Singh said that this will be the third one-on-one meeting between the two leaders after PM Modi came to power in May last year.
"They (Modi and Obama) would discuss a range of bilateral, regional and global issues. Economic engagement would certainly be a part of things being discussed," Mr Singh had said.
PM Modi arrived on Wednesday night for a six-day official visit to the US, during which he would travel to Silicon Valley tomorrow to meet the top IT CEOs of the region and address a meeting of some 18,000 Indian Americans on September 27.