New Indian Premier Narendra Modi will go to Washington for his first meeting with President Obama in September, media reports said today.
Modi, who assumed office last month after a landslide election victory, has accepted the invitation from Obama. However the argenda is yet to be finalized.
The election of the Hindu nationalist Modi, 63, posed a headache for the United states which refused him a visa in 2005 when he was chief minister of Gujarat.
The refusal stemmed from claims he turned a blind eye to anti-Muslim riots in the western state three years earlier that killed some 1,000 people. Modi denies the allegations.
A senior official in the Indian foreign ministry refused to comment on the reports about the meeting in Washington but said a press statement was likely to be issued later in the day.
