The 2019 G20 Osaka Summit is the fourteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20). It will be held on June 28–29 at the International Exhibition Center in Osaka. It is the first G20 Summit to be hosted in Japan.
Investors continued to be cautious as the G20 summit, where the US and China will discuss trade relations, will begin in Osaka, Japan on Friday.
With an array of world issues on the agenda, Donald Trump could not resist weighing in on events at home: As he held meetings with these world leaders, 10 Democrats stood on a stage in Miami as part of the first debates of the 2020 presidential race.
Speaking at the informal BRICS leaders' meeting in Osaka, PM Modi said that there is a need to stop all the mediums of support to terrorism and racism.
"In this meeting, I would like to have discussions on four issues- Iran, 5G, our bilateral relations and defence relations," ANI quoted PM Narendra Modi as saying, in Japan's Osaka.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a letter to leaders gathered in Osaka, Japan, for the two-day summit beginning Friday that while the world has made progress fixing some big problems it's not happening fast enough or shared by all countries.
G20 Summit Live Updates: Ahead of the formal opening of the G-20 Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a trilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump and Japanese premier Shinzo Abe in Osaka, on Friday.
"In the next five years, our target is to make India a five-trillion dollar economy. Social sector remains our top priority. Also we will focus more on infrastructure development, especially digital infrastructure," PM Modi said.
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G-20 Summit is underway in Osaka in Japan. PM Narendra Modi held discussions with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on a range of topics of mutual interest to India and Japan.
Shinzo Abe stressed the importance of global leaders overcoming their differences and joining hands in tackling difficult issues to send a strong message to the rest of the world.
Angela Merkel said as she answered lawmakers' questions in the German parliament Wednesday that G-20 summits offer the chance to hold talks on the sidelines which can help resolve security policy issues but countries shouldn't "overload" the format. She said its focus remains on economic issues following the financial crisis a decade ago.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US would impose "very substantial" tariffs on China if the two countries were unable to reach a trade deal during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.
G20 Summit will be held in Osaka on June 28-29. This will be Prime Minister Modi's sixth G20 Summit. Apart from US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Modi will also meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders during the G20 Summit.
Donald Trump is scheduled to leave for Japan on June 27 to attend the two-day summit meeting of G-20 leaders in Osaka on June 28 and 29.
"Indeed during the Osaka summit, the leaders of China, Russia and India will have a trilateral meeting. The mechanism of China, India, Russia trilateral meeting has maintained a sound momentum of development," Zhang said at a press conference.
The US official may visit New Delhi on his way to Osaka to attend the G-20 summit on June 28-29.
The G-20 Summit meeting is slated for June 28 and 29. China is flexing its muscles in the South China Sea (SCS) which serves as a passage for annual trade worth USD 3.5 trillion. The US and China are locked in a tussle for the commercial control of the SCS.
Like the Trump-Xi summit on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Argentina last November, all eyes will again be on the two leaders in Japan because of the ongoing trade tension.
On Friday, American and Chinese negotiators ended their 11th round of talks after failing to reach agreement to end the trade war that began in 2018 with Trump's decision to impose a 10 per cent tariff on $200 billion worth of goods from China, which retaliated with levies on $60 billion worth of US products.
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