PM Modi holds meeting with Qualcomm CEO in Washington DC

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, on the first day of a three-day US visit, met with Cristiano R Amon, President and Chief executive officer (CEO) of Qualcomm in Washington DC.

Qualcomm is a US multinational corporation, which creates semiconductors, software and services related to wireless technology.

This is part of series of meeting that Prime Minister Modi will undertake with select heads of corporates that have the potential to invest significantly in India. Aside from Qualcomm head, Prime Minister is slated to meet the leadership of Adobe, Blackstone, General Atomics and First Solar.

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President and CEO of @Qualcomm, @cristianoamon and PM @narendramodi had a productive interaction. PM Modi highlighted the vast opportunities India offers. Mr. Amon expressed keenness to work with India in areas such as 5G and other @_DigitalIndia efforts. pic.twitter.com/kKcaXhpFtB

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 23, 2021

Prime Minister Modi arrived in Washington on Wednesday for his much-touted US visit. He received a warm welcome from the members of the Indian community at Joint Base Andrews in Washington DC.

According to a source, the CEOs that Prime Minister is slated to meet, represent diverse areas from technology, the IT sector to finance to defence to renewable energy.

“I think it is a very good mix of CEOs, that would be meeting Prime Minister Modi on a one to one basis, investments in the United States have been very important and very significant in India’s recent development activities in line with our major economic initiatives, the flagship program. In particular what we call Make in India,” the source had added.

We spoke on semiconductors which is an important topic of conversation. We spoke on opportunity to continue to build an incredible mobile ecosystem developing in India.We're happy with everything we're doing together with India:Pres& CEO of Qualcomm on meeting with PM Modi in US pic.twitter.com/nMR6hKEub7

— ANI (@ANI) September 23, 2021

Later today, Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to meet Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

US President Joe Biden will host PM Modi at the White House on September 24, this is going to be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders after Biden took over as the US President on January 20.