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“Reflecting the partnership, the US has offered for India’s consideration the sale of Sea Guardian Unmanned Aerial Systems, which would enhance India’s capabilities and promote shared security interests,” said a joint statement released after Modi-Trump meeting.
Trump thanked India for purchasing US military equipment.
He told Modi “there’s nobody makes military equipment like we make military equipment. Nobody even close.”
Talking about the next month’s Malabar exercise, Trump said the US and India would join the Japanese navy in the largest maritime wargame ever conducted in the Indian Ocean.
Both leaders expressed concern over rising instability in Afghanistan and agreed to strengthen coordination for ensuring peace in the war-torn country.
‘North Korea a threat’
Trump and Modi called North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear and ballistic missile programs a “grave threat” to global peace, the White House said in a statement.
“The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly,” Trump said. He thanked Modi for “joining us in applying new sanctions against Pyongyang”.
The two pledged to work together to counter North Korea’s “weapons of mass destruction” programme and vowed to hold “all parties” that support the programmes accountable, the statement said.
