Modi spent the night
in Frankfurt and will leave in morning for New York where he will have a
gruelling schedule including a rally at the famous Madison Square
Garden on Sunday which is likely to be attended by around 20,000 people
from Indian-American community.
In New York, Modi will deliver his maiden address at the at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
Obama will host a
rare private dinner for Modi at the White House on September 29, so as
to establish a personal relationship with the Indian leader ahead of
summit talks the next day. The two leaders are meeting for the first
time.
The Prime Minister
said he will discuss with Obama how Indo-US ties can be taken to a "new
level" in the interest of the two countries as well as of the world.
In a pre-departure
statement in New Delhi, Modi said he will call for a stronger global
commitment and more concerted multilateral action in addressing
challenges of fragile global economy, turbulence and tension in many
parts of the world, growth and spread of terrorism in his address at the
UN.
Modi would be
meeting as many as 11 top corporate honchos over breakfast on September
29 apart from one-on-one meetings with six more business captains same
day in New York.
They include Google
Executive Chairman Eric E Schmidt, Carlyle Group, Co-Founder and Co-CEO
David M Rubenstein, Cargill President and CEO David W MacLennan, Merck
& Co CEO Kenneth C Frazier Hospira Chairman John C Staley Citigroup
CEO Michael L Corbat, Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Dough Oberhelman,
MasterCard President and CEO Ajay Banga, Pepsico Chairman and CEO Indra
Nooyi.
The Prime Minister
would also be having one-on-one meetings with six other senior
executives. Besides Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd C Blankfein,
Modi would be meeting Boeing Chairman and CEO W James McNerney Jr,
BlackRock Chairman and CEO Laurence D Fink, IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni
Rometty, General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt, among others.
In New York, Modi
will pay a visit to the 9/11 memorial on Saturday following which he is
expected to drive down to the United Nations headquarters to address the
69th annual session of UN General Assembly. He would also meet UN
General Secretary Ban Ki-moon.
Modi will also be
participating in a business meet, to be organised by the USIBC, expected
to be attended by 300-400 businessmen in Washington on September 30.
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