In a rare departure from the usual protocol, not a single independent journalist was allowed to cover Biden’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday night.
In an extremely rare departure from the usual protocol, not a single independent journalist was allowed to cover Biden’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday night. As a result, the only images of that meeting that will enter the historical record are from official government photographers.
Major summits like the G20 often involve painstaking behind-closed-doors negotiations to produce official communiqués, whose language on important issues such as the war in Ukraine, and how that language was reached, is painstakingly scrutinized. This year India, the U.S. and the European Union also presented plans for a rail and shipping corridor between India, the Middle East and Europe.
“This is not your typical bilateral visit to India with meetings taking place in the prime minister’s office and an entire program,” Sullivan said. “This is the host of the G20 hosting a significant number of leaders, doing so in his home, and he has set out the protocols he’s set out.” Emphasizing the point, Vice President Kamala Harris refused to enter until the entire press pool, which included Widakuswara, was allowed into the room.“It is a source of pride for us as American diplomats and civil servants to stand up for the freedom of the press overseas, and as part of that, for access for the traveling White House press corps,” Dean Lieberman, deputy national security adviser to the vice president, told VOA in a statement at the time.
“We had to push our arguments and they were eventually allowed,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly on sensitive issues, told NBC News.
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