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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday met South African President Cyril Ramaphosa connected the sidelines of the G20 Summit present and the 2 leaders discussed practice successful assorted areas, including trade, investment, mining, captious minerals, AI and nutrient security.
“Had an fantabulous gathering with President Cyril Ramaphosa during the G20 Summit successful Johannesburg,” Mr. Modi posted connected societal media aft his meeting.
“We reviewed the afloat scope of the India-South Africa partnership, particularly successful boosting linkages of commerce, culture, concern and diversifying practice successful technology, skilling, AI, captious minerals and more,” helium added.
Mr. Modi besides congratulated the South African person connected the palmy presidency of the G20 acme this year. He appreciated South African G20 efforts to instrumentality guardant and physique connected decisions arrived during the New Delhi G20 Summit.
South Africa is hosting the archetypal G20 Summit being held successful Africa. The African Union became a subordinate of the G20 during India’s presidency successful 2023.
Earlier, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that PM Modi held a “warm and productive” gathering with President Ramaphosa.
“The leaders discussed initiating speech of younker delegations for enhancing exertion and radical to radical ties,” Jaiswal posted connected societal media aft the meeting.
Recalling the humanities ties that underpin India-South Africa relations, some leaders reviewed bilateral ties and expressed restitution astatine the advancement achieved successful assorted fields of cooperation, including commercialized and investment, nutrient security, accomplishment development, mining, younker speech and people-to-people ties, said a connection issued by the MEA.
They discussed ways to heighten practice successful the fields of AI, Digital Public Infrastructure and captious minerals, it added.
The 2 leaders welcomed the increasing beingness of Indian firms successful South Africa and agreed to facilitate communal investments, particularly successful infrastructure, technology, innovation, mining and start-up sectors.
Prime Minister Modi thanked President Ramaphosa for the South African cheetah relocation to India and invited him to articulation the International Big Cat Alliance led by India, said MEA.
The leaders agreed to enactment jointly to amplify the dependable of the Global South. Prime Minister Modi appreciated the inaugural taken by South Africa to clasp the IBSA leaders meeting.
President Ramaphosa assured South Africa’s afloat enactment to India’s upcoming Chairship of BRICS successful 2026.
This is PM Modi’s 4th authoritative sojourn to South Africa, pursuing his bilateral sojourn successful 2016 and aboriginal for the 2 BRICS summits successful 2018 and 2023.
South Africa is the largest trading spouse of India successful the African region. Bilateral commercialized betwixt India and South Africa stood astatine $19.25 cardinal successful 2023-24.
Indian businesses person invested implicit $1.3 cardinal successful South Africa from April 2000 to September 2024. These investments traverse divers sectors, encompassing pharmaceuticals, IT, automotive, banking, and mining.
On Saturday, upon reaching the G20 Summit venue successful Johannesburg, Mr. Modi thanked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa “for the lukewarm invited and for organising this important Summit”.
Addressing the opening league of the G20 Leaders’ Meeting, Mr. Modi called for a profound rethink of planetary improvement parameters and projected the constitution of a G20 inaugural to antagonistic the drug-terror nexus and a planetary healthcare effect team.
Mr. Modi is visiting Johannesburg from November 21 to 23 to be the 20th G20 Leaders’ Summit.
