Pranab Mukherjee may meet Bush on Monday
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet President George W Bush on Monday as part of his maiden bilateral visit to the US during which the civil nuclear deal is expected to dominate the parleys.
By PTI |
WASHINGTON: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet President George W Bush on Monday as part of his maiden bilateral visit to the US during which the civil nuclear deal is expected to dominate the parleys.
Mukherjee, who will be arriving here this afternoon from New York for the two-day visit, is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tomorrow at 8:45 am (6:15 pm IST).
Rice and Mukherjee are expected to hold a wide ranging discussion on several aspects of the broadening and deepening Indo-US ties which will include the civil nuclear initiative.
After the meeting at the State Department, the minister is scheduled to talk at a closed-door session with senior analysts and think tank specialists at the Carnegie Endowment, an event which is closed to the media.
The high-point of Mukherjee's trip to Washington is his visit to the White House tomorrow afternoon where he will be having a session with US National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Mukherjee is also expected to meet Bush there.
The Indian Minister would leave for New York on Tuesday on his way to India.
Senior officials have been stressing that in Mukherjee's meetings, including at the White House, a range of issues on bilateral, regional and global issues will be discussed, but there is also the feeling that the civilian nuclear initiative will merit a high degree of importance.
The feeling is that the Bush administration would want to know from Mukherjee his thinking and that of the government of India on this critical issue given his important role on the nuclear initiative; and Mukherjee will get to know first hand from the administration the important timelines left to be resolved if the nuclear deal is to get through this session of US Congress.
Mukherjee, who will be arriving here this afternoon from New York for the two-day visit, is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tomorrow at 8:45 am (6:15 pm IST).
Rice and Mukherjee are expected to hold a wide ranging discussion on several aspects of the broadening and deepening Indo-US ties which will include the civil nuclear initiative.
After the meeting at the State Department, the minister is scheduled to talk at a closed-door session with senior analysts and think tank specialists at the Carnegie Endowment, an event which is closed to the media.
The high-point of Mukherjee's trip to Washington is his visit to the White House tomorrow afternoon where he will be having a session with US National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Mukherjee is also expected to meet Bush there.
The Indian Minister would leave for New York on Tuesday on his way to India.
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Senior officials have been stressing that in Mukherjee's meetings, including at the White House, a range of issues on bilateral, regional and global issues will be discussed, but there is also the feeling that the civilian nuclear initiative will merit a high degree of importance.
The feeling is that the Bush administration would want to know from Mukherjee his thinking and that of the government of India on this critical issue given his important role on the nuclear initiative; and Mukherjee will get to know first hand from the administration the important timelines left to be resolved if the nuclear deal is to get through this session of US Congress.
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