Narendra Modi US Visit LIVE: Following his announcement of plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on US trade partners, including India, former US President Donald Trump met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on Thursday. The two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral ties and enhancing trade relations. As part of their discussions, Modi and Trump signed a key agreement positioning the US as India’s leading supplier of oil and gas. The deal is expected to bolster economic cooperation between the two nations, ensuring energy security for India while expanding US exports in the sector.
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00:00Thank you very much.
00:07Thank you very much, please.
00:11Great honor.
00:15I'm thrilled to welcome the Prime Minister of India, my friend, Narendra Modi, back to
00:22the White House.
00:23We spent a lot of time here and a lot of time in India.
00:27And he's a very special man.
00:29Prime Minister, it is a pleasure to extend to you the same hospitality that you showed
00:34Melania and myself when we traveled to your beautiful country five years ago.
00:39It's hard to believe so long ago, and it seemed like yesterday.
00:43It was beautiful.
00:44We opened the cricket stadium, 129,000 seats, I think the largest stadium in the world.
00:50And it was an incredible period of time.
00:54There is truly a special bond between the United States and India and the world's oldest
00:59democracy and the world's largest democracy.
01:03And I believe the world's largest country in terms of the numbers of people.
01:07And today, the Prime Minister and I are announcing a framework to strengthen those ties even
01:13further economically.
01:14And the U.S.-India compact for the 21st century is a historic initiative that will deepen
01:21every aspect of our partnership and our friendship.
01:25Starting this year, we'll be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars.
01:31We're also paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F-35 stealth fighters.
01:38In 2017, my administration revived and reinvigorated the Quad Security Partnership.
01:46In our meeting today, the Prime Minister and I reaffirmed that strong cooperation among
01:51the United States, India, Australia, and Japan.
01:55And it's crucial, really, to maintaining peace and prosperity, tranquility even in the Indo-Pacific.
02:03In addition, the United States and India will be working together like never before to confront
02:09the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, a threat all over the world, actually.
02:14Today, I'm pleased to announce that my administration has approved the extradition of one of the
02:19plotters and one of the very evil people of the world.
02:24And having to do with the horrific 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, to face justice in India.
02:33So he's going to be going back to India to face justice.
02:39As we deepen our defense partnership, we'll also strengthen our economic ties and bring
02:44greater fairness and reciprocity to our trading relationship.
02:49As a signal of good faith, Prime Minister Modi recently announced the reductions to
02:55India's unfair, very strong tariffs that limit U.S. access into the Indian market very strongly.
03:02And really, it's a big problem, I must say.
03:06India imposes a 30 to 40 to 60 and even 70 percent tariff on so many of the goods, and
03:14in some cases, far more than that.
03:16And as an example, a 70 percent tariff on U.S. cars going into India, which makes it
03:21pretty much impossible to sell those cars.
03:24Today, the U.S. trade deficit with India is almost $100 billion.
03:31And Prime Minister Modi and I have agreed that we'll begin negotiations to address the
03:36long-running disparities that should have been taken care of over the last four years,
03:40but they didn't do that in the U.S.-India trading relationship with the goal of a signing
03:47an agreement.
03:49And we want, really, we want a certain level playing field, which we really think we're
03:55entitled to.
03:57And he does also, in fairness, so we're going to work on that very hard.
04:01And we can make up the difference very easily with the deficit with the sale of oil and
04:05gas, LNG, of which we have more than anybody in the world.
04:10The Prime Minister and I also reached an important agreement on energy that will restore
04:15the United States as a leading supplier of oil and gas to India.
04:19It will be, hopefully, their number one supplier.
04:21And the groundbreaking development for U.S. nuclear industry, India is also reforming
04:27its laws to welcome U.S. nuclear technology, which is at the highest level, into the Indian
04:33market.
04:34This will bring safe, clean, and affordable electricity to millions of Indians and tens
04:39of billions of dollars to the U.S. civilian nuclear industry in India.
04:45And under the framework we are announcing today, the United States and India are also
04:49joining forces to ensure that artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies are developed
04:56by the two of the most – really, two of the most advanced nations intellectually and
05:03otherwise technologically.
05:05Anywhere in the world, there's nobody very much closer.
05:09We have an incredible relationship there, and those are – this is where it seems to
05:13be heading.
05:15And artificial intelligence, complex – a very complex subject, but it seems to be where
05:21people want to be and they want to go.
05:22And we're leading right now by a lot, but other people will try to catch us.
05:28I don't know if they're going to be able to.
05:30We're going to make it available.
05:31We're going to make tremendous amounts of electricity available.
05:34We're going to let the people that are buying the electricity make their own electric plants,
05:40electric generation plants.
05:43And we've never done this in our country, but we're going to get it done very quickly.
05:46Lee Zeldin and his group are going to get the approvals in very rapid form.
05:51And we're calling it a national emergency, and that's exactly what it is.
05:56So we're going to be – we're going to remain at the top of the AI, or artificial
06:00intelligence, I think, for a long time to come, and we're going to be working very
06:03closely with India and other countries on that.
06:08But right now, we're the leader by quite a bit.
06:10Finally, we agreed to work together to help build one of the greatest trade routes in
06:15all of history.
06:17It will run from India to Israel to Italy and onward to the United States, connecting
06:22our partners by ports, railways, and undersea cables – many, many undersea cables.
06:28It's a big – it's a big development.
06:30It's a lot of money going to be spent, and we've already spent some, but we're going
06:35to be spending a lot more in order to stay advanced and stay the leader.
06:40I'm pleased to report that, with today's announcements, the friendship between the
06:44United States and India is the strongest I believe it's ever been.
06:48I think our relationship is the best it's ever been between two leaders of the two countries,
06:53and it's an honor to say that.
06:55I'd like to now invite the Prime Minister to say a few words, and then we'll take some
06:59questions.
07:00And we appreciate you all being here.
07:03Thank you very much.
07:04Thank you very much.
07:05Your Excellency, President Trump, delegates of both countries, friends of the United States,
07:16your Excellency, President Trump, delegates of both countries, friends from the media,
07:28namaskar.
07:30I would like to, first of all, express my heartfelt gratitude to my dear friend, President
07:43Trump, for the grand welcome and hospitality accorded to me.
07:49President Trump's leadership has been instrumental in nurturing India-U.S. ties and making them
08:01vibrant.
08:03I could feel today the same enthusiasm, the same energy, the same commitment that we had
08:17worked with during our first term.
08:23Our discussions today highlighted our pride in our accomplishments during his first term,
08:35the deep mutual trust that we share, and also the resolve to attain new goals.
08:48We also agreed that the partnership and cooperation between India and the U.S. can shape a better
08:59world.
09:00Friends, the people of America are aware of President Trump's motto, Make America Great
09:11Again, or MAGA.
09:15The people of America are well aware of it.
09:18The people of India, too, are focusing on both heritage and development as they move
09:30forward at a fast pace and with a firm resolve to ensure a developed India by 2047.
09:42If I were to say this, borrowing an expression from America, our vision for a developed India
09:51is to make India great again, or MIGA.
09:59When America and India work together, that is when MAGA, when it's MAGA plus MIGA, it
10:13becomes MEGA, a mega partnership for prosperity.
10:20And it is this MEGA spirit that gives new scale and scope to our objectives.
10:33Friends, today we have also set ourselves the target of more than doubling our bilateral
10:45trade to attain $500 billion by 2030.
10:53Our teams will work on concluding very soon a mutually beneficial trade agreement.
11:06In order to ensure India's energy security, we will focus on trade in oil and gas.
11:18Investment in energy infrastructure will also increase.
11:23In the area of nuclear energy, we also discussed increasing cooperation on small modular reactors.
11:34America plays an important role in India's defense preparedness.
11:46As strategic and trusted partners, we are moving forward actively towards joint development,
11:55joint production, and transfer of technology.
12:02In the times to come as well, new technologies and equipment will enhance our capacities.
12:14We have decided to launch the Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance, and a defense cooperation
12:24framework for the next decade will be prepared.
12:31Friends, interoperability, logistics, repair, and maintenance will also be its key components.
12:43Friends, the 21st century is a technology-driven century.
12:51Close cooperation in the area of technology between countries that believe in democratic
12:58values can give new direction, strength, and opportunities to the entire humanity.
13:10India and the U.S. will jointly work in areas of artificial intelligence, semiconductors,
13:19quantum, biotechnology, and several other technologies.
13:25Today, we also agreed on TRUST, which stands for Transforming Relationships Utilizing Strategic Technology.
13:39Under this, our focus will be on establishing strong supply chains for critical minerals,
13:49advanced materials, and pharmaceuticals.
13:54We have also decided to launch a recovery and processing initiative for strategic minerals
14:06like lithium and rare earths.
14:11We have had close cooperation with the U.S. in the area of space.
14:21The Nisar satellite, developed with mutual cooperation between ISRO and NASA, will soon
14:29be flying into space on an Indian launch vehicle.
14:34Friends, partnership between India and the U.S. strengthens democracy and strengthens
14:43democratic values and systems.
14:49We will work together to enhance peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.
14:59The Quad will play a special role in this.
15:05During the Quad Summit, scheduled to be held in India this year, we will expand cooperation
15:12in new areas with our partner countries.
15:16Under the IMEC and I2U2, we will work together for the development of economic corridors
15:28and in the area of connectivity.
15:31India and U.S. will stand strongly together in the fight against terrorism.
15:40We agree that in order to eliminate cross-border terrorism, we need concrete actions.
15:52I'm very grateful to President Trump that he, in 2008, somebody who carried out genocide
16:02in India, that criminal is now going to be handed over to India.
16:06I'm grateful to President Trump for this.
16:09Concrete action will be taken in the courts in India.
16:13Friends, the Indian community living in the U.S. is an important link in our relations.
16:23In order to further deepen our people-to-people ties, India will soon open new consulates
16:32in Los Angeles and Boston.
16:37These will be new consulates.
16:40We have invited American universities and educational institutes to open their offshore
16:48campuses in India.
16:52President Trump, I am grateful to you for your friendship and strong commitment towards
17:02India.
17:05The people of India still fondly remember your visit in 2020 and hope that President
17:16Trump will come and visit them again.
17:22On behalf of 1.4 billion Indians, I invite you to visit India.
17:32Thank you very much.
17:41Beautiful.
17:42Okay.
17:43Thank you very much.
17:44That was excellent.
17:45We'll do a few questions, please.
17:48Please, go ahead.
17:51Please, go ahead.
17:54Yeah.
17:55Yeah.
17:56Blue shirt.
17:57Thank you, Mr. President.
17:58People in India will naturally welcome your decision to extradite Taha Burana to India
18:02back home.
18:03In that context, I'd like to ask you a question about in last few years, we have seen several
18:07groups in the U.S. being raising anti-India voice, calling about separation, terrorism
18:14activities in India.
18:15Do you think that should continue here in the U.S. as well?
18:18You're going to have to go louder.
18:20Mr. President, people in India would be welcoming your decision to extradite Taha Burana to
18:25India.
18:26I can't understand a word he's saying.
18:27May I, sir?
18:28May I?
18:29May I, sir?
18:30Go ahead, back there.
18:31Mr. President, thank you.
18:32First, I want to ask the Prime Minister a question.
18:33You and the President, you both spoke about combating ISIS.
18:42You both sounded very excited about this partnership upcoming.
18:48I was curious, how much more confident are you with President Trump leading this country
18:55that there will be peace through strength and you will have a successful partnership
18:59with the United States versus with Biden's incompetence and weakness over the last four
19:08years?
19:09That's your question, but I'll answer it.
19:18I agree with you.
19:19Yeah, gross incompetence.
19:20We're going to have a fantastic relationship.
19:25And it has been like the whole world has been set back over the last four years by the weakness
19:29of the United States, the weak leadership of the United States.
19:33But I think we've taken care of it in just three weeks.
19:35It seems to me that even some of the media that we wouldn't prefer has been writing that
19:42this is a much different country right now, that the world has a light over it.
19:46Not only our country, but the whole world.
19:49The Prime Minister told me that before, too, even over India.
19:51The world has a light.
19:52They need the United States to be strong and powerful, but good.
19:57And I think that's happened, and I think it's happened in a very short period of time.
20:01But I will tell you, we're going to have a fantastic relationship, and it'll make both
20:05countries much stronger.
20:08Okay, Geetha Mohan from India Today, sir.
20:21I'll just take my colleague Lalit Jha's question forward because you couldn't understand.
20:27The question is about the fact that you've decided to extradite Tahirul Rana.
20:32Thank you so much.
20:33India has been waiting to have him back in India to bring him to justice.
20:39But there are many other elements in the United States of America, particularly Khalistani
20:44separatists who've been working against Indian interests.
20:48How is the United States of America going to cooperate on that front with India?
20:54There have been allegations that have been leveled against Indian agencies by the Biden
20:58administration.
20:59Are you going to relook that with Tulsi Gabbard as DNI now?
21:03Well, I don't think India had a very good relationship with the Biden administration.
21:08Biden, they wouldn't sell them oil and gas, which is rather hard to believe because, you
21:12know, it's a good thing to do.
21:15And a lot of things happened that weren't very appropriate, I thought, between India
21:19and the administration, the Biden administration.
21:21But as you said, we're giving a very violent man, it seems to me.
21:27I mean, I don't know that he's been convicted yet or will be, but let's assume he's a pretty
21:32violent person.
21:33We're giving him back to India immediately.
21:36And there are more to follow because we have quite a few requests.
21:40So we work with India on crime and we want to make it good for India.
21:45And it's very important.
21:46So that kind of a relationship is very important to us.
21:50OK, go ahead, please.
21:57Mr. President, you've repeatedly called India a big abuser of trade and said it is really
22:03difficult to do business in India because of tariffs.
22:06You announced reciprocal tariffs today.
22:08I am hoping you can speak about what kind of reciprocal tariffs India can expect.
22:14Are you willing to make any concessions?
22:17And how can India head off these tariffs?
22:19I also have one for the prime minister.
22:22Well, India has been to us just about the highest tariffed nation anywhere in the world.
22:29They've been very strong on tariffs and I don't blame them necessarily, but it's a different
22:33way of doing business.
22:34It's very hard to sell into India because they have trade barriers, very strong tariffs.
22:41We are right now a reciprocal nation.
22:44We are going to, if it's India or if it's somebody else with low tariffs, we're going
22:49to have the same.
22:50We're going to have whatever India charges, we're charging them whatever another country
22:53charges, we're charging them.
22:54So it's called reciprocal, which I think is a very fair way.
22:58We didn't have that.
22:59We I was going to do that in my other term and we had the greatest economy ever in the
23:04world.
23:05There's never been an economy like we had.
23:08And then we got hit with COVID.
23:09We had to focus on that.
23:11And I wasn't really in the mood to be putting it on Italy and Spain and France and India,
23:17frankly, and a lot of other countries because the world was very troubled until we got rid
23:21of that nightmare.
23:23But we had the strongest economy anywhere in the world during that fairly long period
23:27of time during my first term, as you know, and we didn't do the tariffs.
23:33We would have done the reciprocal tariffs, but we decided, and I decided, I think on
23:38a human basis, on a humane basis, not to do them because of the fact that there was such
23:43suffering all over the world.
23:45The last thing we needed to talk about is trade problems.
23:49But now we do.
23:50We're doing we see a tremendous future for our country, but we felt that now it's finally
23:55time after 45 or 50 years of abuse that we will do.
24:00And this isn't India.
24:01This is among a lot of nations.
24:03The European Union is very difficult for us, very, very difficult.
24:08They tax our companies at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
24:12They take advantage of a lot of things.
24:14So we're not happy about that.
24:15China, of course, is terrible.
24:17And we've never taken in 10 cents until I was president.
24:20We've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars from China since I've been president in first
24:25term and now.
24:27And we have to do that just as a mechanism of fairness.
24:31And that's what I've done.
24:33And so we are being reciprocal with India, whatever India charges, we charge them.
24:38So frankly, it no longer matters to us that much what they charge, because whatever they
24:43charge.
24:45I had discussions with India in the first term about the fact that their tariffs were
24:50very high and I was unable to get a concession.
24:54So we're just going to do it the easy way and we're just going to say whatever you charge,
24:58we charge.
24:59And I think that's fair for the people of the United States.
25:01And I think it's actually fair for India.
25:04Are you willing to make any concessions, sir?
25:08Any concessions?
25:09The President.
25:10Go ahead, please.
25:11A question for the Prime Minister, please.
25:14Ask to the Prime Minister, please.
25:16Yes.
25:17Sorry.
25:18Yoshita Singh with Press Trust of India.
25:19Prime Minister.
25:20Thank you, Mr. President.
25:21Prime Minister, the U.S. is giving a lot of push to curb illegal immigration and India
25:26has been cooperating on this issue.
25:29How does India see this issue in the larger context?
25:33I don't think this is a question that is about India only, but even globally you can talk
25:43about this issue.
25:45And we are of the opinion that anybody who enters another country illegally, they have
26:01absolutely no right to be in that country.
26:05And as far as India and the U.S. is concerned, we have always been of the same opinion.
26:12And that is that any verified Indian who is in the U.S. illegally, we are fully prepared
26:26to take them back to India.
26:29However, it doesn't stop there.
26:35These are children of very ordinary families and they are lured by big dreams and big promises.
26:43A lot of them are brought in without them knowing about why they're going to a country.
26:51And in fact, they are connected with a human trafficking system.
26:56And we have to make sure that we fight against this system.
26:59As far as the U.S. and India is concerned, I think what we should do is make efforts
27:05to make sure that we uproot these from within the system so that we can reduce or remove
27:15human trafficking.
27:17And basically the young, vulnerable, poor people of India are fooled into coming over
27:24as illegal immigrants.
27:26And our bigger fight actually is against this ecosystem or this system that encourages
27:32such gangs to thrive.
27:34And I can tell you that India will completely support your endeavor in achieving this.
27:40Q Thank you, Mr. President.
27:43I have a question for Prime Minister Modi first, if I may.
27:46I wanted to ask you, did you discuss any possible business deals with Elon Musk during your
27:52meetings today, Mr. Prime Minister?
27:54And Mr. President, I wanted to ask you, today you spoke about hoping to have three-way talks
28:00with President Xi and President Putin.
28:04What would you say to European leaders and other allies who may be concerned that you're
28:09apparently more keen to speak to America's adversaries than to its allies?
28:15PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Well, maybe I'll just go first on this one.
28:19We had some talks, and we told the European Union, we told the NATO people, largely they
28:29overlap.
28:30You have to pay more money because it's unfair what we're doing.
28:34We're doing a tremendous amount more, probably $200 billion more, going into Ukraine, using
28:41for Ukraine to fight.
28:45And Europe has not really carried its weight in terms of the money.
28:49It's not equitable.
28:51And we want to see a counterbalance.
28:53We want to have them put up more money.
28:55They have to do that.
28:56At the same time, we had a very good conversation with President Putin the other day, yesterday,
29:01and we also had a very good conversation, I did, in both cases, with President Zelensky.
29:08And I think we're going to be able to do something.
29:10I think we're going to be able to make a deal.
29:12And I hope so, because it's a horrible war.
29:14It's a very terrible, bloody war, with a million and a half soldiers at least already dead
29:19on the battlefield, lying all over the fields like nobody has ever seen anything like it
29:23since — certainly since the Second World War.
29:27And so I think we're going to be able to do something.
29:29We're working with President Zelensky and with President Putin.
29:34And my impression is that they — I know that President Zelensky wants to make a deal,
29:39and I also feel that I know that President Putin wants to make a deal.
29:43I wanted to know that before I began any detailed discussions.
29:47But the meeting and the conversation — also, the meeting with Steve Whitkoff in Moscow
29:52was a very successful one.
29:55And my phone call with him was a very successful one.
29:59Please.
30:00Q You asked a question regarding Elon Musk.
30:08I have known him for a very long time.
30:11I was not even a prime minister at the time when I first met him.
30:15I was chief minister.
30:18And today, he came to meet me, along with all his family, with his children.
30:23And so we had a nice discussion.
30:27As far as the EV is concerned — EVs are concerned, the EV — the word EV has a copyright.
30:38And that is — one person who has a copyright for the word EV, and that is Trump.
30:52Q Thank you, Mr. President.
30:54Can I ask whether you discussed at all today the case of Ghatam Adani, who's one of the
30:59wealthiest men in Asia and perceived as an ally of Prime Minister Modi?
31:03Prime Minister Modi, have you asked the President to take action on that case?
31:08Firstly, India is a democratic country.
31:18And our culture and our thought, philosophy is Vasudeva Kutumbakam, which basically means
31:25that the entire world is a family.
31:27Every Indian is my own family member.
31:31And when it comes to such personal matters, two — leaders of two countries will not
31:37get together on that topic and discuss anything on an individual matter.
31:41Q Thank you, Mr. President, thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, I have a question for you
31:54as well.
31:55But, Mr. President, you have suggested, with regards to the Russia-Ukraine war, you've
31:58suggested several things that Ukraine should give up — the idea of NATO membership, territory
32:04that was seized back in 2014 by Russia.
32:07What should Russia give up?
32:09PRESIDENT TRUMP Russia has gotten themselves into something
32:13that I think they wish they didn't.
32:16If I were President, it would not have happened, absolutely would not have happened.
32:20And it didn't happen for four years.
32:22If you look at what has taken place under President Bush, they lost a lot.
32:28Under President Obama, they lost Crimea.
32:34Under Biden, it looks like they could lose the whole thing.
32:36Under Trump, they lost nothing.
32:38Ukraine lost nothing.
32:39They didn't give up anything.
32:42And you take a look at the other three Presidents surrounding me, they gave up a lot.
32:49I think that when you look at Ukraine and when you look at the mess that they're in,
32:55it's got to be ended and it's got to be stopped.
32:57Russia has taken over a pretty big chunk of territory.
33:03And they also have said from day one, long before President Putin, they've said they
33:08cannot have Ukraine be in NATO.
33:10They said that very strongly.
33:12I actually think that that was the thing that caused the start of the war.
33:15And Biden said it, and Zelensky said it, and I think that was one of the reasons, one of
33:22the starts of the war.
33:24And from long before Putin, they said you cannot have Ukraine going in in any way into
33:31NATO.
33:33And I start from that standpoint.
33:36I think everybody knew that.
33:37Now, if a better deal can be negotiated, if they're able to make a deal where they can
33:43do that, that's fine with me.
33:44I really don't care.
33:45I want that bloodshed to stop.
33:49I don't want to see — you know, we have an ocean between us.
33:53And the site we're talking about, the site of death, we're calling it the fields of death.
33:58We have a big ocean in between us.
34:00This is more important for Europe.
34:02We shouldn't be in.
34:03They have to equalize.
34:04And they're going to have to do it fast, but they have to equalize.
34:07But as far as the negotiation, it's too early to say what's going to happen.
34:12Maybe Russia will give up a lot.
34:14Maybe they won't.
34:15And it's all dependent on what is going to happen.
34:18The negotiation really hasn't started.
34:20But I will say, as far as NATO is concerned, from many years before President Putin, I
34:25will tell you that I've heard that Russia would never accept that.
34:29And I think Ukraine knew that, because Ukraine wasn't in and never requested to be in until
34:34more recently.
34:35So that's the way it is, and I think that's the way it's going to have to be.
34:39Go ahead, please.
34:41All right, go ahead, please, with the tie.
34:44With the tie, yeah.
34:46Mr. President, this is Saurabh Shukla from News Mobile.
34:50Mr. President, you spoke about Prime Minister Modi as a tough negotiator.
34:54Who was a tougher negotiator today, and who has a better negotiating tactic when it comes
34:59to tariffs?
35:00Oh, he's a much tougher negotiator than me, and he's a much better negotiator than me.
35:04There's not even a contest.
35:06Okay?
35:07Yeah, go ahead, please.
35:11Go ahead.
35:14Go ahead.
35:15Reena Bhardwaj from ANI.
35:18How do you see this relationship between the India and the United States to counter China?
35:24And what is your vision when it comes to India, you know, brokering peace in the Ukraine and
35:31Russia conflict?
35:32Well, I think we're going to have a very good relationship with China.
35:35I got along with President Xi very well until COVID.
35:38That was a bridge too far.
35:40But until then, I got along with President Xi very, very well.
35:43We were very close as leaders go.
35:46I don't want to be naive, but as leaders go, I think we were very close.
35:51And I think that China is a very important player in the world.
35:55I think they can help us get this war over with Ukraine and Russia.
35:59And I look at India, I do see the skirmishes on the border, which are quite vicious, and
36:05I guess they continue to go on.
36:08If I could be of help, I'd love to help because that should be stopped.
36:11That's been going on for a long time, and it's quite violent.
36:15It's quite violent.
36:16But I would hope that China and India and Russia and U.S. and all of us can get along.
36:24It's very important.
36:25You know, the power of weaponry today is — and not only nuclear, but nuclear in particular
36:31— the power of weaponry is very important.
36:33I said before that I had very constructive talks in my first term with President Putin
36:40about the denuclearization of the two countries, and then we were going to go to China after
36:46we worked some kind of a deal.
36:48And we — at the confines of a deal, we were — I thought we — he really wanted to do
36:53it, so did I — denuclearize.
36:56And it's so — it's such a beautiful term when you think about it.
36:59In other words, to bring it down, because the power of those weapons is too great.
37:05And I did speak to President Xi about that, and I was getting also a very good response.
37:09He's building a very strong nuclear power.
37:13He's not very close to Russia or the United States right now, but he will be soon.
37:18I mean, he'll catch up over the period of four or five years, they say.
37:23But it would be a great thing if we could, on a military basis — we're going to spend
37:26this year 900 — let's say $915 billion on military.
37:33Russia, without the war, was spending close to 100.
37:36But with the war, I can't tell you what they're spending, but they're spending a lot.
37:39And China is spending $400 and $450 billion.
37:43We're over $900 billion.
37:45And I said, you know, it doesn't really make sense, does it?
37:48We're spending the money against each other, and we could spend that money for better purpose
37:54if we got along.
37:55And I'll tell you, I think that something like that will happen.
37:59First, when I left, as you know, four years ago, we didn't have Israel and the Middle
38:05East.
38:06On October 7th, a disaster, the disaster.
38:10Nothing was happening.
38:11Iran was not going to do anything because Iran did not have much money at that point.
38:16They were broke.
38:17They were totally broke.
38:18They didn't have money for Hamas or for Hezbollah.
38:21And you didn't have Russia with Ukraine, and that would never have happened.
38:25But now I come back and I have — the whole world is on fire, so I have to put out the
38:29fires.
38:30But after I put out the fires, I'm going to meet with China and I'm going to meet with
38:33Russia, and we're going to see if we can de-escalate it, if we can bring it down, military, especially
38:39as it pertains to nuclear.
38:41Please.
38:42Q Prime Minister, how do you see India's role?
39:03You have had discussions with President Trump about de-escalating the conflict in Russia
39:10and Ukraine.
39:12As you know, I have been in constant contact with both Russia and Ukraine.
39:21I have also visited both countries.
39:25And many peoples are mistaken, and they feel that India is neutral.
39:30I would like to clarify, India is not neutral.
39:35We have taken a side, and we have taken the side of peace.
39:44And it is based on this principle of ours that in the presence of President Putin, I
39:55clearly said in front of the media that this is not the era of war.
39:59And even today, it is my conviction that solutions cannot be found on the battlefield.
40:07Ultimately, you have to come to the negotiating table.
40:12And India has constantly made efforts that there are talks that take place where both
40:20parties are present.
40:21It is only then that we will find a solution.
40:25The efforts being made by President Trump, I support them, I welcome them, and I would
40:34like that President Trump is successful as soon as possible so that the world is on the
40:40path to peace once again.
40:43Everybody, thank you very much.
40:46Thank you very much.
40:47And I very much appreciate the Prime Minister visiting our great country, and I do really
40:52appreciate it.
40:53We have so much in common.
40:54And all we want to do is have peace, and we want to have strength, and we want to have
40:58lots of different things together.
40:59But the relationship with India and with the Prime Minister has never been better.
41:04Thank you very much.