Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 16 landed in Calgary, Canada to participate in the G7 summit in Cananasis. This is the first visit to PM Modi in Canada in ten years and will see his discussions with world leaders focused on major global problems, including energy security, technology and innovation.
The summit is very followed because it is held against the background of the escalating of Israel-Irane and Russian-Ukraine. In addition to Modi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelsky will be among the guests at the Summit in Cananasis, Alberta.
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“Exchange of views with G7 countries”
The PM Modi, who is on three countries, arrived in Canada from Cyprus on Monday evening (local time) at the invitation of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Assembly of Kananaskis on 16-17. June is the sixth consecutive participation of Prime Minister in the G7 summit.
“At the summit, the Prime Minister exchange opinions with G 7 leaders, other invited countries and leaders of international organizations on key global issues, including energy security, technology and innovation, in particular non -energy connections and non -existence and quantum problems,”
G7 Outreach Summit
PM Modi is expected to speak at the G7 Outreach summit scheduled for Tuesday noon. Outreach Summit will be thematic around three basic questions – “protection of our communities around the world”, “building energy security and accelerating the digital transition” and “ensuring the partnership of the future”.
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The Summit G7 is the first multilateral event that Modi will participate in after the end of the Sindoor Operation – the exact Indian strikes about the terrorist camps in Pakistan last month, after the terrorist attack of Pahalgam, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists.
In addition to PM Carney, PM Modi is expected to meet several other G7 leaders and guest countries. Carney’s invitation of Modi to participate in the G7 summit signaled the intention of the new government to repair links with a new Delhi, which has fallen to historically minimal above the killing of pro-Khalistanic separatist Hardeed Singh Nijjar.
“Examination of the way to reset bindings with Canada”
In October last year, India remembered her High Commissioner and five other diplomats after trying to connect Ottawa with Nijjar. India also ruled out the same number of Canadian diplomats.
India accused the government of Justin Trudeau of the permission of Pro-Khalistan elements to function from Canadian land.
Carney, an economist and a political rookie, became a new Canadian Prime Minister in March after Trudeau resigned to the highest office.
After Trudeau New Delhi, he said he hoped to rebuild links with Canada on the basis of “mutual trust and sensitivity”.
In the last few months, India and Canada’s security officials have resumed contact and both sides looked at the possibility of appointing new high commissioners.
The Ministry of External Affairs 12 said June said India was investigating the way to reset the links with Canada. The upcoming meeting at the G7 summit will offer India and Canada an important opportunity to exchange opinions on bilateral and global questions, the Foreign Ministry said.
“India, the Canadian pulsating democracy, bound by a common obligation to the rule of law,” Mea said before the G7 meeting.
During the last visit of PM Modi in 2015, bilateral ties were promoted to the level of strategic partnership.
Bilateral trade
Bilateral goods trade in 2024 amounted to $ 8.6 billion. India exported $ 4.2 billion and imported $ 4.4 billion. Bilateral service trade in 2024 was $ 14.3 billion, with India exporting $ 2.5 billion and importing services worth $ 11.8 billion.
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Canada took over the annual rotating Presidency of G7 1 January 2025 with this 50th anniversary of the G7 summit.
At the summit, the Prime Minister exchanges opinions with G 7 leaders on fundamental global issues.
The seven (G7) group is an informal grouping of world advanced economies – France, the US, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada and the European Union. Its members meet every year at the G7 summit to discuss global economic and geopolitical issues.
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