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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) departed for New Delhi aft attending the G-20 Leaders’ Summit and holding bilateral meetings with assorted satellite leaders successful Johannesburg.
“After successfully concluding his engagements astatine the G-20 Summit and meetings with satellite leaders, PM Narendra Modi departs from Johannesburg, South Africa,” Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said successful a societal media post.
“The palmy Johannesburg G20 volition lend to a prosperous and sustainable planet. My meetings and interactions with satellite leaders were precise fruitful and volition deepen India’s bilateral linkages with assorted nations,” Modi said successful a station connected X.
“I’d similar to convey the fantastic radical of South Africa, President Ramaphosa and the Government of South Africa for organising the Summit,” helium added.
Mr. Modi connected Sunday met his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Italian premier Giorgia Meloni, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his counterparts from Jamaica and the Netherlands.
Mr. Modi besides held interactions with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
Earlier addressing the 3rd league of the G-20 acme successful Johannesburg, Modi called for a planetary compact to forestall misuse of artificial quality and made a beardown transportation for captious technologies to beryllium human-centric, alternatively of finance-centric.
Mr. Modi besides said exertion applications should beryllium “global” alternatively than “national”, and based connected “open source” alternatively than “exclusive models”.
Mr. Modi besides addressed the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) leaders’ acme and said the betterment of the UN Security Council was nary longer an option, but a necessity.
He asserted that the India-Brazil-South Africa troika should nonstop a wide connection for changes to institutions of planetary governance.
On Saturday, Mr. Modi met his British counterpart Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, Brazilian President Lula da Silva and respective different satellite leaders.
Mr. Modi projected a G-20 inaugural aimed astatine enhancing cleanable vigor transitions by boosting recycling, easing proviso concatenation pressures and advancing associated probe connected captious minerals, and suggested forging a concern to marque outer information much accessible and interoperable.
Mr. Modi besides called for a profound rethink of the planetary improvement parameters and projected mounting up of a G20 inaugural to antagonistic the drug-terror nexus and a planetary healthcare effect team.
Mr. Modi arrived astatine Waterkloof Air Force Base (AFB) connected Friday successful Gauteng, wherever helium was accorded a lukewarm and ceremonial welcome.
This was the archetypal G-20 Summit held successful Africa. The African Union became a subordinate of the G-20 during India’s presidency successful 2023.
