New Delhi:
US First Woman and spouse of President Joe Biden, Jill Biden, obtained presents price hundreds of {dollars} in 2023, together with a diamond price $20,000 (Rs 17.15 lakh) from Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout his official state go to to the US in 2023.
The 7.5-carat inexperienced lab-grown eco-friendly diamond gifted to Jill Biden displays the “chemical and optical properties of earth-mined diamonds”.
The diamond, gifted to Jill Biden, was positioned in a field fabricated from paper pulp, often called kar-e-kalamdani.
In accordance with the report launched by the Workplace of the Chief of Protocol of the US, Mrs Biden additionally obtained a brooch valued at $14,063 from the Ukrainian ambassador to the US and a bracelet, brooch and a $4,510 {photograph} album from the President and First Woman of Egypt.
The US law states that any official from the chief department, together with the President, has to declare presents they obtain from international leaders and counterparts which are greater than $480.
The $20,000 diamond was retained for official use within the White Home East Wing, in line with a State Division doc, whereas the opposite presents to the president and first girl have been despatched to the archives, information company AP reported citing the report.
In 2023, Prime Minister Modi visited the US on its first-ever state go to to the nation, the place he was hosted by outgoing President Joe Biden and Mrs Biden. Because the official reward, the Prime Minister gave a handcrafted sandalwood field to President Joe Biden.
The sandalwood field gifted to President Biden incorporates a silver idol of Lord Ganesha, a diya (oil lamp) and ‘Das Danam’.
The Prime Minister additionally gifted Joe Biden a duplicate of the primary version print of the e book ‘The Ten Principal Upanishads’.
PM Modi obtained a hand-crafted, vintage American e book galley from the Bidens.
The primary couple additionally gifted him a classic American digital camera, a hardcover e book of American wildlife pictures and a signed, first-edition copy of ‘Collected Poems of Robert Frost.