The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who's currently on a four day trip to the US, is heading to Washington D.C for a summit - and dinner - with President Obama this week.
After addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Mr. Modi will spend two days with Congressional and business leaders in the US capital, hoping to improve the trading relationship between the two countries.
Here's our Washington correspondent Lorna Shaddick.
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Ahead of Mr. Modi's visit, US Republican Senator John McCain has said that both the US and India have a great deal in common:
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Ahead of Mr. Modi's visit, US Republican Senator John McCain says the US is embracing Mr. Modi's election as a chance to renew ties with India:
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Tanvi Madan is Director of the New India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. She says that Mr. Modi has decided to move on from the US refusal to grant him a visa back in 2005, after deadly violence in his state of Gujarat:
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Tanvi Madan, Director of the New India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C, says improving ties with the US will help India elsewhere:
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Tanvi Madan is Director of the New India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. She says it's crucial that this first meeting between Mr. Obama and Mr. Modi go well:
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Elliot Engel is head of the US House of Representatives India caucus. He says New Delhi and Washington have many reasons to be strong partners, despite a difficult history:
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Dolly Oberoi, an Indian American business woman and head of C Squared Technologies in Virginia, says Mr. Modi's well equipped to improve US-India business ties:
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