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US Vice-President Joe Biden due to meet India PM Singh | |
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US Vice-President Joe Biden is due to told talks with Indian PM Manmohan Singh during a four-day visit to India to boost diplomatic and economic ties. | |
Mr Biden is the first US vice-president to visit India in three decades. | Mr Biden is the first US vice-president to visit India in three decades. |
Mr Biden will also travel to the financial capital, Mumbai, to meet business leaders and deliver a speech on the economy. | |
Trade between two countries has grown from $9bn (£5.9) in 1995 to nearly $100bn this year. | |
Mr Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, arrived in New Delhi on Monday evening. | |
He went immediately to visit a museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, writing in the visitors' book that it was an "honour and great privilege" to to see a place "memorialising one man who changed the world". | |
Ahead of his visit Mr Biden had said in an interview with the Times of India newspaper that the world's two biggest democracies had a "tremendous capability to work together" but should be doing more. | |
But there are areas of concern - the US wants India to allow greater access to American firms, and a landmark nuclear deal has not delivered the lucrative contracts it promised to. | But there are areas of concern - the US wants India to allow greater access to American firms, and a landmark nuclear deal has not delivered the lucrative contracts it promised to. |
Correspondents say India is concerned about next year's withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. | |
India has spent $2bn in aid in Afghanistan and fears the return of Taliban once the US leaves. | |
"We strongly support the role India has played in Afghanistan, leveraging its economic strength to improve Afghanistan's economy," Mr Biden told the Times. | |
He said India's aid "will help to ensure our common goal of a stable and prosperous future for the Afghan people". | He said India's aid "will help to ensure our common goal of a stable and prosperous future for the Afghan people". |
During his landmark visit to India in November 2010, President Barack Obama had said Washington and Delhi's relationship would be one of the century's defining partnerships. | During his landmark visit to India in November 2010, President Barack Obama had said Washington and Delhi's relationship would be one of the century's defining partnerships. |