Biden leaves for Vietnam after attending G20 Summit
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New Delhi: US President Joe Biden on Sunday left for Vietnam after attending the G20 Summit in Delhi.
Before his departure, the US President, along with several other G20 leaders paid homage at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat on Sunday morning.
Biden had arrived at the national capital on the evening of September 8, Friday, to attend the summit.
It is Biden’s first visit to India as the US President.
On the same day of his arrival, he held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where both nations agreed to cooperate in sectors like telecom, space, renewable energy, education, etc.
In their over 50-minute talks, Modi and Biden also vowed to "deepen and diversify" the bilateral major defence partnership while welcoming forward movement in India's procurement of 31 drones and joint development of jet engines.
The two leaders also announced the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on Saturday. A total of 19 countries and 12 international organisations have so far agreed to join the alliance, including both G20 members and non-member countries.
India, Brazil, and the US are the founding members of the alliance.
Apart from this, Biden was also present during the announcement of the launch of the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor.
The first-of-its-kind economic corridor will be a historic initiative on cooperation on connectivity and infrastructure involving India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, EU, France, Italy, Germany, and the US.
With inputs from agencies