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Obama's first state dinner goes to... Manmohan Singh
Updated On: 30 September, 2009 07:57 AM IST | | Agencies
And the first state dinner of President Barack Obama's administration goes to... India.
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And the first state dinner of President Barack Obama's administration goes to... India.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is goingu00a0 to America for a state visit Novemer 24, just before Thanksgiving.
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Such visits include an elaborate arrival ceremony on the White House South Lawn, one-on-one time with the president and a state dinner.
It's a plum presidential nod of recognition for the world's largest democracy and most stable U.S. ally in a hostile corner of the world.
But why India first?
It was just four years ago that President George W. Bush and Singh raised their glasses and toasted the US-India relationship at the start of a July 2005 state dinner.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is goingu00a0 to America for a state visit Novemer 24, just before Thanksgiving.
u00a0
Such visits include an elaborate arrival ceremony on the White House South Lawn, one-on-one time with the president and a state dinner.
It's a plum presidential nod of recognition for the world's largest democracy and most stable U.S. ally in a hostile corner of the world.
But why India first?
It was just four years ago that President George W. Bush and Singh raised their glasses and toasted the US-India relationship at the start of a July 2005 state dinner.
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