Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the new US President Joe Biden spoke to each other on Monday. This is the first conversation between the two after Biden took charge as the US President last month.
In a tweet, PM Modi said "conveyed my best wishes for his success" and " We discussed regional issues and our shared priorities", with a focus on "co-operation against climate change".
In the tweet, he said, both sides are "committed to a rules-based international order" and are "looking forward to consolidating our strategic partnership" to "further peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond."
In November, after the US election results, both sides had spoken to each other and discussed cooperation on the COVID pandemic, its economic impact, and Indo Pacific. The Defence, External Affairs/secretary of state counterparts and National security advisors of both countries have already spoken to each other.
Biden has been a supporter of close New Delhi-Washington ties, in his capacity as a senator and the vice president. In August 2001, Joe Biden had written a letter to then-President George W Bush calling on the new administration to drop US sanctions against India and during his tenure as the Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he worked towards the US Senate’s approval of US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement in 2008.
