PM Narendra Modi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has embarked on a six-day visit to Japan, Papua New Guinea, and Australia on Friday. During his visit, he will attend three key multilateral summits. This includes Group of Seven (G7) and the Quad summits.
Over 40 engagements are lined up during the PM’s six-day tour. In addition, he will also interact with over two dozen world leaders in summits as well as through bilateral meetings.
On Thursday, India said that it is expecting several deliverables to come out of the Quad summit in Hiroshima. Besides PM Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden and counterparts from Japan and Australia will also attend the summit.
In Hiroshima for three days
PM Modi will be in Hiroshima from May 19 to 21 primarily for the annual summit of the G7 advanced economies. He is expected to speak on challenges facing the globe including food, fertiliser, and energy security.
From Japan, Modi will travel to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea where to host the third summit of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) on May 22 jointly with Prime Minister James Marape.
In the third and final leg of the trip, Modi will visit Australia, where he will hold talks with his counterpart Anthony Albanese and address a diaspora event on May 23.
The Quad summit was originally scheduled to be held in Sydney but is now taking place in Hiroshima as Biden postponed his visit to Australia to focus on crucial debt-ceiling talks in Washington.
Several deliverables expected
“There are several deliverables which we are expecting to come out of it and I think all that would be showcased when the four leaders meet in Hiroshima,” Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said at a media briefing without elaborating.
The foreign secretary said India’s regular participation at the G7 summits clearly points to increasing recognition that it should be a part of any serious effort to resolve global challenges including those of peace, security and development.
“This is even salient in the context of our ongoing presidency of the G20 and our particular efforts to prioritise the interests and concerns of our fellow members of the global south,” he said.
Japan is hosting the G7 summit in its capacity as the current chair of the powerful grouping. Modi is travelling to that country at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
Kwatra said India’s participation at the summit would be structured around two formal sessions on May 20 and another one on May 21.
“That is the fundamental anchor on which our political positioning and the pursuit of our economic interests and other interests is based insofar as this conflict is concerned,” he said.
To unveil Gandhi’s bust
The foreign secretary said Modi will unveil a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Hiroshima. He said the prime minister will also hold bilateral meetings with several leaders on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima. He, however, said the details of the meetings are being worked out.
To a question, Kwatra indicated that the prime minister may raise incidents of attacks on Indians in Australia during his talks with his Australian counterpart.
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