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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has projected a planetary skills mobility mechanics and a economical corridor — similar the India Middle East Economic Corridor (IMEC), for the Global South. His connection was made at the G7 Summit successful Evian-les-Bains successful France astatine a outreach league with G7 partners, titled ‘Reviving a Balanced, Shared and Sustainable Economic Growth for All.’
The Prime Minister wrote, connected societal media tract X: “Like the imaginativeness of IMEC, tin we enactment connected connectivity projects with countries successful Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands?”
G7 Summit updates connected June 17, 2026
The IMEC task has faced delays owed to aggregate conflicts successful West Asia — starting with the Gaza-Israel struggle and much recently, the warfare betwixt Iran and the U.S. and Israel. The task was announced successful September 2023 astatine the G20 Summit successful New Delhi.
Mr. Modi, who is known to person a penchant from acronyms, suggested combining superior from the affluent G7 countries, endowment from India and ownership from countries of the Global South to found the International Mobilisation Partnership for Accelerating Connectivity and Trade (IMPACT).
India and countries of the Global South has young endowment portion galore societies were ageing, the Prime Minister said, arsenic helium called for a “Global Skills Partnership” which would harness this complementarily. The partnership, helium said, would representation skills and beforehand trusted skilled mobility.
Mr. Modi said that the impacts of the warfare successful West Asia would beryllium felt by mediocre countries for a portion and that planetary fiscal institutions should make enactment systems that assistance these countries sorb the shocks and support their economical resiliance.
“The disruptions successful fuel, fertiliser and nutrient proviso chains caused by the situation successful West Asia volition proceed to interaction the Global South for a sizeable period. If we genuinely question to fortify planetary solidarity, the astir susceptible countries should not beryllium near to carnivore the load of these crises alone,” helium said.
