PM Narendra Modi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to leave for a 6-day foreign tour on Friday (May 19). During this, PM Narendra Modi will visit three countries Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia. PM Modi will attend the G-7 summit to be held in Japan and his visit to Japan will be from May 19 to 21.
PM Narendra Modi will meet the Prime Minister of Japan Kishida Fumio during this. In the G-7 summit being chaired by Japan, the Prime Minister will speak in the G-7 sessions with the participating countries. According to the information, in these sessions PM Modi will speak on important issues like peace, stability and prosperity, food, fertilizer and energy security, health, gender equality, climate change.
Highlights of PM Modi’s visit
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart Kishida Fumio. PM Modi will also have bilateral meetings with other leaders of allied countries on the sidelines of the G-7 summit.
- During this time, the leaders of the Quad organization (QUAD) are also expected to meet in Japan itself. However, US President Joe Biden will not attend this meeting. In his place, US PM Joseph Biden will be part of the G-7 summit and the Quad meeting.
- PM of Australia Anthony Albanese, PM of US Joseph Biden, PM of Japan Kishida Fumio and PM of India Narendra Modi will reach Japan to participate in the Quad Leaders Summit.
- India has been invited as a guest country in the G7 summit. The G-7 organization includes France, America, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada and the European Union. Earlier, PM Modi had participated in the G7 summit in Germany on June 27 last year.
- The meeting of the Quad organization formed to counter China, which considers itself the new superpower of the world, is also to be held in Japan. The grouping has stepped up its security and economic ties as tensions with China escalate.
PM Modi attended the second Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo on May 24 last year. - Prime Minister on 22 May Narendra Modi will visit Papua New Guinea. PM Modi will jointly host the 3rd Summit of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC III Summit) with Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea.
- FIPIC, launched in 2014, includes 14 Pacific island countries along with India. Which are the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
- Prime Minister Modi will have bilateral engagements in Papua New Guinea, including meetings with Governor-General Sir Bob Dade and Prime Minister James Marpe. This will be the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Papua New Guinea.
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