New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not bodily attend the G7 summit in June this yr due to the prevailing COVID state of affairs, a spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs stated on Tuesday (May 11).
Modi was slated to attend the summit which can be held in Cornwall on the invitation of the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“While appreciating the invitation to the Prime Minister by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to attend the G7 Summit as a Special Invitee, given the prevailing COVID state of affairs, it has been determined that the Prime Minister will not attend the G7 Summit in individual,” stated the MEA spokesperson in response to media queries.
It would be the forty seventh version of the summit. The G7 members embody the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USA and the EU.
Earlier this yr, the UK PM’s visit to India was additionally cancelled due to the COVID state of affairs.
The two nations did maintain a digital assembly this month to launch plans for a remodeled India-U.Okay. relationship.
The two leaders launched an Enhanced Trade Partnership, adopted ‘Roadmap 2030’, mentioned the present COVID-19 state of affairs and exchanged views on regional and international problems with mutual curiosity, together with cooperation within the Indo-Pacific, and G7.
The ‘Roadmap 2030’ was adopted on the Summit to elevate bilateral ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
According to the Indian Prime Minister’s Office, the Roadmap will pave the best way for a deeper and stronger engagement over the subsequent ten years in the important thing areas of people-to-people contacts, commerce and economic system, defence and safety, local weather motion and well being.
