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2nd Modi-Trump meet of the year to be held on side-lines of G-7 summit tomorrow

PM Modi is all set to meet US President Donald Trump on Monday at 3.45 pm and expected to continue till 4.30 pm on the side-lines of the G7 summit in Biarritz. This will be the second meet between the 2 leaders this year and comes 2 months after they met on the side-lines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

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PM Modi is all set to meet US President Donald Trump on Monday at 3.45 pm and expected to continue till 4.30 pm on the side-lines of the G7 summit in Biarritz. This will be the second meet between the 2 leaders this year and comes 2 months after they met on the side-lines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

Both will come face to face for the first time at the G7 during Cultural Program and Leaders’ Dinner on Sunday evening. 

The ongoing India Pakistan situation in the backdrop of New Delhi removing the special status for the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is bound to be discussed. 

"India’s decision to rescind Article 370 in Kashmir is an internal decision, but certainly with regional implications.  And President Trump will likely want to hear how Prime Minister Modi intends to calm regional tensions in light of this significant move", a senior Trump administration official said in a backgrounder teleconference on Trumps's G7 summit.

Donald Trump has 3 times offered to mediate on Kashmir, something that has irked New Delhi which has made it clear that India Pakistan ties follow Shimla and Lahore agreements according to which no 3rd party mediation is acceptable. Trade, defence ties and the Afghan peace process will also be discussed. 

Senior Trump administration official said, "They will look for solutions on the trade front.The U.S. is looking to India to reduce tariffs and open its markets."

Last week both the leaders spoke during which India had raised the rhetoric coming from Islamabad since 5th august that impacts regional stability. 

All in all, PM Modi will have 4 bilateral meets on the side-lines of the G7 summit.

India is "Biarritz partner" country along with Australia, Chile, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Egypt and Burkina Faso. Climate, biodiversity will be the main focus of the 45th G7 summit whose theme is "combating inequality".

It is after a gap of more than 10 years that India has been invited at the G7summit, the last time being in 2005 when the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair had invited the then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Gleneagles summit.

On Thursday PM was in France on a state visit and met with French President Emmanuel Macron for the 5th time. PM Modi visited France in 2017 followed by the visit of the French President in 2018 and then meetings on the sidelines of G20 summit in Argentina and Japan in December 2018 and June 2019, respectively. After his France visit, he went to UAE and Bahrain where he met the top leadership and launched RuPay card and is back again in France for the G7 Summit.

 

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