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New Delhi:
US First Lady and wife of President Joe Biden, Jill Biden received gifts worth thousands of dollars in 2023, including a diamond worth $20,000 (Rs 17.15 lakh) during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the US in 2023. was included.
7.5-carat green lab-grown eco-friendly diamond gifted to Jill Biden “Chemical and optical properties of earth-mined diamonds” Features”.
The diamond gifted to Jill Biden was kept in a paper pulp box known as a car-e-kalamdani.
Mrs. Biden also received a $14,063 brooch from the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. and a bracelet, brooch and $4,510 photo album from the president and first lady, according to a report released by the U.S. Office of the Chief of Protocol. . of Egypt
US law says. Any executive branch official, including the president, must declare gifts from foreign leaders and counterparts that exceed $480.
The $20,000 diamond was kept in the East Wing of the White House for official use, according to a State Department document, while other gifts for the president and first lady were kept in archives, the AP news agency reported, citing the report. I was sent.
In 2023, Prime Minister Modi visited the US on his first official visit to the country, where he was hosted by outgoing President Joe Biden and Mrs. Biden. As an official gift, the Prime Minister presented a handmade sandalwood box to President Joe Biden.
The sandalwood box gifted to President Biden contains a silver idol of Lord Ganesha, a Diya (oil lamp) and ‘Das Dunam’.
The Prime Minister also gifted a copy of the first edition print of the book ‘The Ten Principal Upanishads’ to Joe Biden.
PM Modi receives hand-made antique American book Gilly from Bidens.
The first couple also gifted him a vintage American camera, a hardcover book of American wildlife photography and a signed, first edition copy of The Collected Poems of Robert Frost.
