The request received the green light ahead of a face-to-face meeting of President Donald Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Expanding ties depends on dispelling some of the concerns that have emerged about a drift in relations.
A huge billboard declaring "Welcome to Trump Village" in Hindi and English, accompanied with a beaming portrait of the U.S. president, was unveiled in the tiny hamlet officially known as Marora, in the largely agriculture northern state of Haryana. The two leaders have spoken over phone at least thrice since the latter assumed office. Costa is partially of Indian-origin and his election in 2015 has opened avenues for energising bilateral relations between the two nations. The U.S. embassy in New Delhi said it was aware but referred further inquiries to Washington. He noted that United States supports India's commitment towards development efforts in strife-torn Afghanistan.
Modi's Portugal visit would precede his trip to the U.S. on June 26. "So I think that we would like to move forward with both countries". Modi would definitely like Donald Trump to send a message to such elements in the US. The US trade deficit with India is among those Trump has tasked the US Commerce Department to investigate and recommend corrective policy. The government of India has raised those incidents with the USA administration.
"Much bureaucratic china within the USA government had to be broken to get to this decision", he said.
Modi and Trump are likely to discuss the issue of curb on H1B visa.
Observing that this defence trade has supported thousands of American jobs, the official said since 2008, India has signed over United States dollars 15 billion in defence contracts with the US. "The time to talk is now", R. Chandrashekhar, president of Nasscom, the Indian IT industry's trade body said in a recent interview. The deal is estimated to be worth about $2 billion.
The Indian navy wants the surveillance drones, variants of the Predator drones, to keep watch over the Indian Ocean.
Counter-terrorism would be another major area of discussion.
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Vivek Lal, the chief executive of global strategic development at General Atomics who has been driving the negotiations for the drones, is expected to be among a group of CEOs meeting Modi at a roundtable on Sunday.
On Monday, Lockheed Martin announced an agreement with India's Tata Advanced Systems to produce F-16 planes in India, provided it won a contract to equip the Indian Air Force with hundreds of new aircraft.
Marillyn Hewson, the CEO of Lockheed Martin, will also meet Modi.
More than 60 percent of India's 1.3 billion people still lack access to sanitary waste facilities, and dysentery kills millions of Indian children every year.
Also in the backdrop of Trump withdrawing from the Paris climate deal, any gains made by Modi on climate issues will benefit China, it said.
Ahead of his visit Prime Minister Modi set a friendly tone, when he wrote on his Facebook wall that "I will pay a working visit to Portugal on 24 June 2017".
"He should emphasize that India is slowly getting into renewable energies and technology transfer is important", added the expert.
PM Modi will also visit the Netherlands on June 27 to celebrate 70 years of the establishment of Indo-Dutch diplomatic relations. Modi's only agenda for now seems to be trying to play a constructive role in reaffirming their shared interests, values and goals.
"India's partnership with the United States is multi-layered and diverse, supported by not just governments but all the stakeholders on both sides". "Trump is the president of the leading nation in the world, so that's why I chose him", he said.
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