INDIA-OBAMA/PRESIDENT HOME Indian President hosts ���At Home��� ceremony for Obamas

Record ID: 1374194

  • Title: INDIA-OBAMA/PRESIDENT HOME Indian President hosts ���At Home��� ceremony for Obamas
  • Date: 26th January 2015
  • Summary: INDIA'S PRESIDENT, PRANAB MUKHERJEE, ARRIVING INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM BEING PLAYED
  • Embargoed: 11th February 2015 08:26
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: General
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    India's President Pranab Mukherjee hosted a ceremony for U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama, at the presidential palace in New Delhi on Monday (January 26).
    The event, known as "At Home", is a ceremonial tea party hosted by the Indian president every year on Republic Day.
    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the event followed by the Obamas.
    Among the guests was former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice President Hamid Ansari, state chief ministers and other dignitaries from across the country.
    Earlier on Monday, Obama watched a dazzling parade of India's military might and cultural diversity, in a Republic Day parade.
    Obama is the first U.S. president to attend the event, an annual show of military prowess that was long associated with the anti-Americanism of the Cold War.
    Obama's presence at the parade - at Modi's personal invitation - marks the latest upturn in a roller-coaster bilateral relationship that just a year ago was in tatters.
    The United States views India as a vast market and potential counterweight in Asia to a more assertive China, but has frequently been frustrated with the slow pace of New Delhi's economic reforms and unwillingness to side with Washington in international affairs.
    Obama and Modi are scheduled to address the U.S.-India CEO Forum and the India-U.S. business summit later on Monday.
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