New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump next week on the margins of the G7 Summit in France, ThePrint has learnt.
Modi will travel to France and Slovakia as a part of a two-nation visit from 13 till 18 June. In France, Modi will travel to Nice and Paris as a part of a bilateral visit, while attending the G7 summit at the French hill station of Evian.
The meeting between Modi and Trump will be the first bilateral between the two since the Indian Prime Minister travelled to the US in February 2025. Ties between India and the US nosedived in the months after the last meeting, following Trump’s insistence on New Delhi curbing its imports of Russian oil and taking credit for mediating an end to Operation Sindoor in May 2025.
The two leaders were scheduled to meet during the G7 summit in Canada last year, however, Trump returned early. The two leaders held a discussion over the phone.
The call did not improve ties as India underlined that the cessation of hostilities between New Delhi and Islamabad was solely through bilateral discussions. India has maintained that there was no threat from the US of imposing trade tariffs to bring a conclusion to the 88-hour conflict between the two South Asian neighbours.
The US President has since claimed numerous times of being the architect of the pause in hostilities. The Trump administration has also embraced Pakistan in the last year, with Islamabad playing a key mediation role in the US-Iran war.
In August 2025, Trump imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Indian exports, partly penalising New Delhi for its imports of Russian oil.
The tariffs remained in place until February of this year, when the two leaders announced that India and the US have come to an agreement for an interim trade deal. The US moved swiftly to cut the 25 percent tariff imposed due to India’s purchases of Russian crude.
A framework agreement for the interim trade deal was further agreed to by both sides, but has since not translated into a final agreement as the US Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs imposed via the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA).
The US President has sought other legal tools to impose tariffs on imports from third countries including via the Section 301 remedial measures under the Trade Act of 1974.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a four-day visit to India last month, as the two sides continue building on the gains from the trade agreement. Despite the chill in ties, Modi and Trump spoke a number of times between September last year and February 2026.
The US President has, according to media reports, confirmed his attendance at the G7 summit. Modi was scheduled to travel to Kuala Lumpur last year for the ASEAN summit and its related mechanisms, where a meeting between the two was a possibility.
While Trump made the trip to Kuala Lumpur, Modi decided to not attend the ASEAN meetings. The Prime Minister made a bilateral visit to Malaysia earlier this year.
The meeting between the two leaders will also come roughly a month after Trump travelled to Beijing and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Apart from the likely bilateral with Trump, Modi is likely to also hold a bilateral with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The two leaders last met in 2024, with a bilateral meeting scheduled for the G7 summit last year in Canada.
However the meeting in Canada could not take place as Modi’s call with Trump ran over time leading to a rescheduling of the bilateral with Zelenskyy. Modi and Zelenskyy last spoke in August 2025.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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