We're all grateful to PM Modi for his presidency, for India's presidency of G20: US

New York, Sep 19 (PTI) The US is grateful to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the G20 presidency and President Joe Biden returned from the leaders' summit in Delhi feeling "very positive and optimistic", a senior White House official said.

Biden "came away from the G20 feeling very positive and optimistic about the direction. I mean, there was an awful lot of great work done at the G20 and we’re all grateful to Prime Minister Modi for his presidency, for India’s presidency of it, but also for the way the agenda was executed," National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said at a press briefing in response to a question by PTI.

"It was a very, very productive couple of days," Kirby said, referring to the G20 Leaders’ Summit held in Delhi on September 9 and 10 under the Indian presidency of the grouping of the world's biggest economies.