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India had asked the United States not to allow reporters to ask questions during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France in June, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said on Saturday.
Speaking at the Economic Times World Leaders Forum, Gor said the Ministry of External Affairs had made the request shortly before the June 17 meeting between Trump and Modi in Evian-les-Bains.
According to Gor, Trump was told that India preferred “no questions” and agreed to the arrangement.
Gor said: “We were behind the scenes…And he [Trump] said, do they have any asks? And the MEA [Ministry of External Affairs] had one ask. He said, and it was, let's bring in the media, but let's not do a full press conference.”
“I told the president, I said, the Indians prefer no questions,” the US envoy added. “He said, sure, no problem.”
However, Gor said the meeting then began with journalists and around 50 cameras in the room. Modi and Trump made opening remarks, after which Trump turned towards the cameras and asked, “any questions?”
According to Gor, Trump’s invitation turned the meeting into a 45-minute press interaction, with Modi seated beside him as reporters directed their questions primarily to the US president.
The Indian government and the Ministry of External Affairs have not officially responded to Gor’s account.
Modi’s meeting with Trump came days after three Indian mariners were killed in a US Navy attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. During the interaction, Modi had raised concerns over the safety of Indian seafarers operating in the conflict zone.
A month earlier, Modi’s reluctance to hold press conferences, along with growing concerns over India’s deteriorating press freedom, had come under renewed scrutiny during his visit to Europe.
Journalists in Amsterdam and Oslo questioned foreign ministry officials about the prime minister’s approach to the media.
Among them was Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng, who directly asked Modi whether he would take questions “from the freest press in the world”. The prime minister did not respond. Lyng later attended a press conference by Indian diplomats in Oslo, where she had a tense exchange with Sibi George, the Ministry of External Affairs’ secretary (West).
During his address at the event, Gor highlighted what he described as a “fake news” problem in India.
“I used to think we have a fake news problem back home,” he said. “Some of the things that get reported here are just nowhere close to the ballpark.”
The envoy specifically referred to a conversation with Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal over one such report. “I told him, I said I’m going to put something out publicly,” Gor said, adding that Goyal did the same.
“Rarely has a minister here in India put out something calling out fake news,” Gor added.
On July 13, Goyal rejected a Reuters report that India declined a quick trade agreement with the US during talks in June and is holding out for a better deal.
Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.
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