Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Japan’s Hiroshima. This is the first time the two leaders have held a meeting since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Prime Minister’s Office shared photographs of the meeting in which India’s national security advisory was also present.
“PM @narendramodi held talks with President @ZelenskyyUa during the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima,” the prime minister’s office tweeted.
Both Modi and Zelensky are attending the G7 summit following an invitation by Japan, the current chair of the powerful grouping.
Prime Minister Modi also held wide-ranging talks with several global leaders on the sideline of the summit of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies.
Earlier today, PM Modi and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida held talks focusing on boosting bilateral cooperation in areas of green hydrogen, high technology, semiconductors and digital public infrastructure. In the nearly 50-minute talks, Modi and Kishida also deliberated on ways to synergise efforts to combat pressing global challenges under India’s G20 presidency and Japan’s leadership of the G7 advanced economies.
In a tweet, Modi described his meeting with Kishida as “excellent.”
“We reviewed the full range of India-Japan relations and also discussed the focus areas of India’s G-20 Presidency and Japan’s G-7 Presidency towards making our planet better,” the prime minister said.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the two prime ministers exchanged views on a wide range of issues, including development finance, food security, climate change and energy among others.
“The leaders discussed ways to synergise efforts of their respective G-20 and G-7 presidencies. The prime minister stressed the need to highlight the concerns and priorities of the Global South,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
