The most talked-about meet will be with US President Donald Trump that will take place at 03.45 pm and will continue till 4.30 pm. This will be the second meet between the two leaders this year and comes two months after they met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
It will be a packed day for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he meets four world leaders and participates in two sessions at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France. He will be meeting President of Senegal Macky Sall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of Chile Sebastian Piñera and President of US Donald Trump. The two sessions he will be participating would be on Climate, Biodiversity, Oceans and on Digital Transformation.
The most talked-about meet will be with US President Donald Trump that will take place at 03.45 pm and will continue till 4.30 pm. This will be the second meet between the two leaders this year and comes two months after they met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
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 three 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 third party mediation is acceptable. Trade, defence ties and the Afghan peace process will also be discussed.
All in all PM Modi has 6 bilaterals on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
Complete schedule of PM Modi meeting world leaders at G7 Summit in Biarritz, France | Local time
09 - 9:20 am (12:30 pm IST) - Meeting with Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal
10 -11:30 am - Session on Climate, Biodiversity, Oceans
11:30 -11:45 am (3 pm IST) - Meeting with Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
11:50 - 12:10 pm (3:20 pm IST) - Meeting with Sebastian Pinera, President of the Republic of Chile
12:15 - 01:00 pm (3:45 pm IST) - Meeting with US President Donald Trump
01- 02:30 pm - Session on Digital Transformation (Working Lunch)
03:10 - Departure from Biarritz
He has already met British PM Boris Johnson and met Secretary-General of United Nations António Guterres on Sunday evening. With British PM talks focused on trade and investment, defence & security.
This was the first meet between the two leaders since Boris Johnson took charge as the British PM. The meeting lasted for 30 minutes. Both leaders had a conversation last week in which PM Modi congratulated him assuming charge as British PM.
During the same conversation, PM Modi had raised the issue of violent protests that took place outside the Indian mission by Pakistani and Khalistani groups on Independence Day with the British Prime Minister.
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 G7 Summit, 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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