AMERICA CALLING Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the United States during September 26-30. He will be in New York for the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and will hold bilateral meetings with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, keeping in mind the government’s focus on immediate neighbours. According to the official itinerary laid out by the ministry of external affairs, Modi will also have 30 engagements over the four days, apart from engagements at the UN
Meetings with US administration 11 COMPANIES Merck & Co CEO Meeting with Barack Obama (September 29 MEETING PM: Kenneth C Frazier and September 30). Modi will also meet US Caterpillar CEO Vice-President Joe Biden; Secretary of State D Oberhelman John Kerry; Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel. He will also meet former US President Bill Warburg Pincus CEO Clinton & former US secretary of state Joseph P Landy Hillary Clinton in New York on Sept 29. Google Executive Chairman Hospira Group Focus areas with US Eric E Schmidt Chairman John | Trade and investment C Staley AES Corporation | Energy President and CEO | Science and technology Andres Gluski SIX ONE-ON-ONE | Defence relation & maritime securities MEETINGS: | India and US’ assistance to third-world Boeing Chairman W James UNGA agenda McNerney Jr | United Nations General Assembly PepsiCo Chairperson (September 27): and CEO Indra Nooyi Meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; PM will address the 69th session Carlyle Group’s co- of the United Nations General Assembly’s founder and CEO general debate; expected to make a strong David M Rubenstein Goldman Sachs pitch for granting India a permanent Chairman and CEO membership of the UN Security Council Lloyd C Blankfein | Meetings on UNGA sidelines BlackRock (September 27): Chairman and CEO Meetings with Bangladesh Prime Minister Laurence D Fink Sheikh Hasina (first meeting between MasterCard IBM President both leaders), Sri Lanka President President and CEO and CEO Ginni Mahinda Rajapaksa and Nepal Prime Ajay Banga Rometty Minister Sushil Koirala Cargill Inc CEO and General Electric CEO Community-related events President David Jeff Immelt Address at Madison Square Garden and W MacLennan meeting prominent Indian nationals, PIOs Kohlberg Kravis and NRIs (September 28); USIBC event at Citigroup Inc CEO Roberts CEO George the Andrew Mellon Auditorium in Michael L Corbat R Roberts Washington DC (September 30) Source: Ministry of external affairs