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With a connection that spot was successful abbreviated proviso globally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated successful a league with the Group of Seven (G7) countries and others connected “Forging New Partnerships and Rebuilding International Solidarity”. In summation to the G7 and India, different spouse countries – Brazil, Egypt, Kenya, South Korea – participated successful these discussions on with the World Bank and African Development Bank. Mr. Modi met U.S. President Donald Trump for the archetypal clip since February 2025 astatine the meeting.
The big state France’s volition for the league was to physique a much effectual and just strategy of planetary partnerships. Some of the sessions person reportedly been branded successful a mode that would clasp Mr. Trump’s interest.
G7 Summit updates connected June 16, 2026
Mr. Modi summarised his messages to the gathering connected societal media. “Mutual spot is the astir important strategical plus today. But, sadly, today, the satellite does not endure from a shortage of resources…it suffers from a shortage of trust,” helium wrote connected X. Mr. Modi said the aboriginal of partnerships was based connected re-building spot and urged countries to determination beyond the donor-recipient paradigm and enactment arsenic equals successful the improvement context. India has, successful caller years, sought to play a enactment relation for mediate income and poorer countries – the Global South.
“Emphasised that the Global South has immense expectations from the world. More than support, it seeks partnership,” Mr. Modi wrote, adding that helium had highlighted India’s efforts successful Africa during the G7 session, including its absorption connected training, water, agriculture, vigor and capableness building.
India, however, did not motion its sanction to a communique connected restructuring the improvement concern ecosystem which the G7 and Kenya and South Korea supported, portion putting its sanction to a telephone for coordinated effect to the Bundibugyo ebola outbreak and a roadmap to combat cancer.
Videos showed Mr. Modi and Mr. Trump shaking hands earlier the meeting, during which they sat adjacent to each other. Earlier, the 2 men – whose narration has known amended days – did not greet each different during a ‘family photo’ of the gathered leaders. While the Prime Minister and the President person spoken much than erstwhile connected the telephone since they met successful idiosyncratic successful February 2025, India-U.S. ties person frayed nether the value of respective issues, astir precocious the sidesplitting of 3 Indian sailors successful a U.S. onslaught connected an lipid tanker disconnected the seashore of Oman.
Prior to this, Mr. Trump’s insistence that helium had brought astir a ceasefire to the four-day equipped struggle betwixt India and Pakistan successful May 2025, the protracted dialog of a preliminary commercialized woody – that has not been signed yet and different issues specified arsenic restrictions connected visas for skilled professionals arsenic good arsenic racism against Indians successful the U.S., person challenged the bilateral narration astatine respective levels. The 2 men volition clasp bilateral talks connected Wednesday day arsenic the acme winds down.
Mr. Modi is scheduled to clasp bilateral treatment with the leaders of Canada, the U.K. and the UAE connected Tuesday evening.
