India, Feb. 22 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bilateral engagements with US president Donald Trump in the United States "went very well" because both the leaders adhere to the ideology of 'nationalism'.

"The prime minister was in the US and Washington. He was among the earliest world leaders to be invited by President Trump in his second term to meet with him. I've been doing this all my life, so I have some reference points and some experiences as a comparative assessment. I would say with all objectivity, I thought it went very well and for a variety of reasons," S Jaishankar said at an event in the national capital.

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