After PM leaves, Pence to address US-India biz body
Azhar. “At present, some members have disagreement over the listing matter. And China stands ready to remain in coordination and communication with the relevant parties on this issue,” he said.
Beijing put a technical hold to a move in the UN by the US and other countries to declare Azhar a terrorist for his role in the Pathankot terror attack. Last year, China had put technical holds on India’s application to designate Azhar as a terrorist.
US vice-president Mike Pence will be the chief speaker at the 2017 annual meeting of the US-Indian Business Council (USIBC), an advocacy organisation, on June 27, the day after his boss President Donald Trump’s first meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi will be in the Netherlands, his next destination after the US, when Pence takes the stage, but the two would have met possibly by then, sometime during the Prime Minister’s visit to the White House on June 26, the details of which are still being worked out, according to multiple US sources.
Modi’s only publicly confirmed engagements so far are a reception with the Indian American community on June 25, the day he arrives in DC, and a meeting with the president in the White House the next day — specifics remained unclear — and a meeting with business leaders, date yet to be announced.
The USIBC announced Pence’s speech on Monday and the two business leaders it will honour with the Global Leadership Awards.
This year’s recipients are Adi Godrej, chairman of the Godrej Group, and Andrew Liveris, chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company.