Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived Washington on Sunday to attend the Nuclear Security Summit hosted by US President Barack Obama. Accompanied by high level delegation, the Prime Minister arrived at 2026 local time on a two-day trip.
The Prime Minister will have a bilateral meeting with Obama in the morning before attending the Summit.The Prime Minister will also have meetings with the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.After a closing reception by Obama, the Prime Minister will leave for Brazil on 14th April to attend the BRIC and IBSA Summit there.
US President Barack Obama will call for unprecedented global action to secure nuclear stocks and keep weapons grade material out of the hands of extremists, at a two-day summit opening Monday.
The White House says Obama called the 47-nation conference to put together the most coordinated effort yet to tackle what one adviser called the most dangerous security threat haunting America, and the rest of the world.
"It is absolutely fundamental to view this summit with the starting point of the grave nature of the threat of nuclear terrorism," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy US national security advisor."We know that terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, are pursuing the materials to build a nuclear weapon, and we know that they have the intent to use one."The nuclear security summit -- the biggest gathering of world leaders led by a US president since 1945 -- marks Obama's boldest effort yet to exercise global leadership on one of his principal foreign policy themes, non-proliferation.Obama wants fellow leaders to agree to his timeframe of securing all nuclear materials within four years and a final summit communique will likely include calls for tougher prosecutions of traffickers in weapons grade materials.
Singh's plane landed at Andrews Air Force base on the outskirts of the US capital, Indian embassy spokesman Rahul Chhabra said. Singh was due to meet Sunday with President Barack Obama, a day before the 47-nation summit.
Obama, an advocate for the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons, convened the two-day summit to seek coordination to prevent loose nuclear material from falling into the hands of extremists.
"These are legitimate concerns which require firm responses," Singh said upon leaving New Delhi.
India and rival Pakistan declared themselves nuclear powers in 1998, although New Delhi says that its goal is for all nations to eliminate the ultra-destructive weapons.
"We were among the first countries in the world to call for a world free of nuclear weapons. I am encouraged by the fact that this approach is finding greater resonance today," Singh said.
"We will continue to call for more meaningful progress in this direction," he said.
Obama last week laid out a revised policy that said for the first time that the United States -- the only nation to have carried out a nuclear attack -- would never use the weapons against a state that does not have nuclear arms and complies with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The Prime Minister will have a bilateral meeting with Obama in the morning before attending the Summit.The Prime Minister will also have meetings with the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.After a closing reception by Obama, the Prime Minister will leave for Brazil on 14th April to attend the BRIC and IBSA Summit there.
US President Barack Obama will call for unprecedented global action to secure nuclear stocks and keep weapons grade material out of the hands of extremists, at a two-day summit opening Monday.
The White House says Obama called the 47-nation conference to put together the most coordinated effort yet to tackle what one adviser called the most dangerous security threat haunting America, and the rest of the world.
"It is absolutely fundamental to view this summit with the starting point of the grave nature of the threat of nuclear terrorism," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy US national security advisor."We know that terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, are pursuing the materials to build a nuclear weapon, and we know that they have the intent to use one."The nuclear security summit -- the biggest gathering of world leaders led by a US president since 1945 -- marks Obama's boldest effort yet to exercise global leadership on one of his principal foreign policy themes, non-proliferation.Obama wants fellow leaders to agree to his timeframe of securing all nuclear materials within four years and a final summit communique will likely include calls for tougher prosecutions of traffickers in weapons grade materials.
Singh's plane landed at Andrews Air Force base on the outskirts of the US capital, Indian embassy spokesman Rahul Chhabra said. Singh was due to meet Sunday with President Barack Obama, a day before the 47-nation summit.
Obama, an advocate for the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons, convened the two-day summit to seek coordination to prevent loose nuclear material from falling into the hands of extremists.
"These are legitimate concerns which require firm responses," Singh said upon leaving New Delhi.
India and rival Pakistan declared themselves nuclear powers in 1998, although New Delhi says that its goal is for all nations to eliminate the ultra-destructive weapons.
"We were among the first countries in the world to call for a world free of nuclear weapons. I am encouraged by the fact that this approach is finding greater resonance today," Singh said.
"We will continue to call for more meaningful progress in this direction," he said.
Obama last week laid out a revised policy that said for the first time that the United States -- the only nation to have carried out a nuclear attack -- would never use the weapons against a state that does not have nuclear arms and complies with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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