Besides India, the meeting which will be held on 19 February will be attended by the leaders of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US.
Australia, India and South Korea will be invited as guest participants to the June meet, which will be the first in-person Group of Seven leaders summit in two years.
UK PM Johnson had extended an invitation to Modi during a phone call last year when India was chosen alongside South Korea & Australia as guest countries of the multilateral summit.
Trump’s G-7 plan to invite Russia, Australia, India & South Korea, while leaving out China’s Xi Jinping, have set off alarm bells in European capitals.
While US President Trump has expressed a desire to expand the G7 membership to include India and other countries, the proposal will require the approval of all member nations.
On the decision to invite India, Australia, Russia and South Korea to the G7 summit, China said any attempts to seek a 'small circle' against it is 'doomed to fail'.
French president Emmanuel Macron's diplomacy at G7 summit shows that Paris has grabbed the microphone from Berlin and London to speak in the name of the EU.
By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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