Prime Minister Narendra Modi may visit the United States in September this year for the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), as he has been listed as one of the speakers at the session, a report said.
The list of provisional speakers mentions PM Modi’s address on September 26, 2025. While the list is prepared after consultations from respective countries and the leaders can withdraw their names at any moment, the initial mention of the name suggests a possible visit of PM Modi to the US.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had addressed the 79th UNGA general debate last year. PM Modi also travelled to the UN last year and addressed the GA’s Summit of the Future. The Prime Minister has previously addressed the general debate in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Prime Minister Modi is presently on a visit to the UK and the Maldives. He will most likely be visiting China for the SCO Summit and Japan in late August or early September. PM Modi will also host Russian President Vladimir Putin for the QUAD summit in November.
As of now, there’s no confirmation if the Prime Minister will be visiting to the US. However, the mention of the name comes at a time when intense negotiations are taking place between India and the US on the trade deal amid a looming deadline over reciprocal tariffs.
The discussions have not led to materialisation of a full-fledged deal as the contention on certain things like dairy products continues to be a point of focus. The negotiations would begin again the next month.
India-US Trade Talks
The fifth round of trade negotiations between India and the United States concluded without a breakthrough, with the US making fresh demands for greater market access in the final hours of talks. Despite the impasse, India remains optimistic about securing an interim trade agreement before the August 1 deadline. Indian negotiators, who held the latest round of discussions in Washington last week, are expected to return to New Delhi.
For the next round of talks, the US team will visit India in August, an official familiar with the matter said.
The negotiations are part of the broader effort to finalise a bilateral trade agreement (BTA), for which both countries had agreed on the Terms of Reference (ToR) in March.
The fifth round was led by India’s Special Secretary in the Department of Commerce Rajesh Agrawal and Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch. Key issues discussed included agriculture, automobiles, treatment of non-market economies, and SCOMET (Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment, and Technologies), reports PTI.
The interim deal is being pursued ahead of the expiration of the suspension of Trump-era tariffs.