 "Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting at 28th and 29th ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos")
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the 14th India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit in Vientiane, their eighth meeting in the last two years.
"Two democracies and a defining partnership of our era! PM meets President Obama," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted with pictures of the two leaders.
Two democracies and a defining partnership of our era! PM meets President Obama @POTUS on sidelines of EAS pic.twitter.com/FixOF027sF
— Vikas Swarup (@MEAIndia) September 8, 2016
The second India-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue was held in New Delhi last month.
The meeting was "extremely warm and cordial", Swarup said after the meeting.
This could be their last meeting as leaders of the two countries with Obama's second term as US President coming to an end in November.
They met for the first time at the White House in September 2014 when Modi travelled to Washington DC at the invitation of Obama.
Modi had also exchanged views with Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China's Hangzhou on Sunday, with the US president praising the "bold policy" move on GST reform in a "difficult" global economic scenario.
Also Thursday, he met Laotian Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and State Counsellor and Foreign Minister of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi.
