G7 summit LIVE: PM Modi arrives in Canada
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Canada on Monday (June 16, 2025) to attend the G7 Summit at Kananaskis, his first visit to Canada in a decade, with discussions with world leaders to be focussed on crucial global issues, including energy security, technology and innovation.
Prime Minister Modi will also hold several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Summit, coming over a month after India's Operation Sindoor that had targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attacks.
The G7 summit comes amidst rising geopolitical tensions, including escalating tensions in the Middle East in the wake of the strikes between Iran and Israel, as well as a trade war triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies.
Mr. Trump, who arrived in Kananaskis Sunday (June 15, 2025) for the G7 Summit was expected to have bilateral meetings with many world leaders. However, Mr. Trump is abruptly leaving the summit, departing a day early Monday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and the U.S. leader has declared that Tehran should be evacuated 'immediately.'
Read: G7 leaders want to contain Israel-Iran conflict, as Donald Trump calls for talks between countries
The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal grouping of the world's advanced economies- France, the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada and the European Union. Its members meet annually at the G7 Summit to discuss global economic and geopolitical issues.
India, the fifth-largest economy in the world, has regularly been invited to the Outreach session of the G7 Summit in the past few years.
The summit is expected to deliberate on pressing challenges facing the globe including the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the situation in West Asia.
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