Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold more than 15 bilateral meetings with visiting world leaders over the course of the G20 Summit weekend from September 8 to 10.
According to reports, PM Modi will meet US President Joe Biden, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on September 8.
On September 9, in addition to the G20 meetings, PM Modi will hold bilateral meetings with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
On September 10, the Prime Minister will attend a working lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron, apart from meetings with leaders of Canada, Turkiye, UAE, South Korea, European Union, Brazil and Nigeria.
The Friday night meeting between Modi and Biden would be the first since the US President honoured the Indian PM with a state dinner three months ago. On his maiden trip to India as the President of the United States, Biden would welcome the African Union as a G20 member, an Indian move that has been supported and cheered by world leaders.
During the bilateral meeting, the two leaders are likely to review the progress made on the decisions that they took during Prime Minister Modi’s official state visit to Washington in June.
Prominent issues that could feature during the meeting could be Ukraine, critical and emerging technology and some of the deals that were announced like that of the drones with General Atomics and jet engines with General Electric.
India has pledged to amplify the voice of the Global South — a wide of expanse of mostly developing countries, many of them former colonies, in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Oceania and the Caribbean. In the run-up to the summit, New Delhi has focused on issues affecting developing countries, like food and fuel insecurity, rising inflation, debt and reforms of multilateral development banks.
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