Fighter Jets, 26/11 Extradition And More, Modi-Trump Make Most Of The Good Vibe During Bilateral

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (February 14 according to IST) left United States for India. This concluded his two-day visit (February 12-13) to the country. It was also his first US visit after President Donald Trump was sworn-in for the second time. During his visit to US, Modi met Trump and two leaders held talks on variety of issues of bilateral and global importance.

Here's what Modi and Trump spoke about

- During the bilateral talks, the two leaders spoke on defence and security, trade and technology, energy ties and people-to-people contact.

- The two leaders also spoke on regional and international issues and developments that are of mutual interest to both countries.

- Trump said that PM Modi has been a 'great friend' and that it was a 'great honour' to host him at the White House. He added that he shares "wonderful relationship" with PM Modi

- "It's a great honour to have PM Modi of India. He is a great friend of mine for a long time. We have had a wonderful relationship, and we kept the relationship during our 4 year period...We have just started up again. We have, I think, some very big things to talk about. Number 1 is, they are going to be purchasing a lot of our oil and gas," said Trump.

- "We have more oil and gas than any other country in the world by far. They need it, and we have it. We are going to talk about trade. We are going to talk about many things. But, it's really an honour to see you, you have been my friend for a long time. Congratulations on having done a great job," said Trump.

Trump and PM Modi mentioned some of the points they discussed during bilateral talks in the joint press conference they addressed.

- Trump said that there was a "special bond" between world's largest democracy and the world's oldest democracy and both had agreed to boost ties further.

- "Starting this year, we will be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars," Trump said at a joint press conference with Modi.

- "We are also paving the way to ultimately provide India with F-35 stealth fighters," he said.

- Trump administration has okayed extradition of 2008 Mumbai terror attack plotter Tahawwur Rana. Trump made a mention of this during the joint press conference calling Rana "one of the very evil people of the world"

During the bilateral talks and even during the press conference, PM Modi congratulated Trump for his second term in the Oval Office.

- "I firmly believe that in your second term, we will work with more speed," he said.

- "President Trump always keeps the national interest of the US supreme and like him, I also keep the national interest of India at top of everything else," Modi added.

- On ending Ukraine war, Modi said India wanted peace.

- "I support Donald Trump's efforts towards finding a possible solution to end the war. The world somehow feels India has been neutral during the war. But I would like to reiterate that India has not been neutral. In fact, India has been on the side of peace," Modi said.

- "When I met President Putin, I had even said that 'this is not the era for war'. I had also said that solutions cannot be found on the battlefield. They can only come when all parties sit at the table for dialogue," he added.