The first meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was held on Friday on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires in Argentina.
During his tightly packed schedule, he met world prominent world leaders including US President Donald Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping among others.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced in Buenos Aires in Argentina that India would host G-20 summit in 2022, the year in which the country will celebrate its 75th Independence Day.
The meeting is being seen as a bid to pull the world's top two economies from the brink of a full-fledged trade war.
"I'm grateful and I invite leadership from across the world to come to India in 2022," said PM Modi.
The prime minister held meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
The three leaders discussed issues concerning global peace and stability, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.
It was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who presented the agenda in the second session of the G20 Summit on international trade, international financial and tax systems.
PM Modi further said that the informal meeting at Wuhan in April this year had proved to be a milestone and had opened new avenues of cooperation between India and China.
Modi tweeted that he had an excellent meeting with the Secretary General and that there were wide-ranging deliberations on various global issues.
In a pre-departure statement, PM Modi said that during the G20 summit, India will highlight the need for reformed multilateralism which reflects the contemporary realities and can effectively strengthen collective action for global good.
India and other G20 members today made a strong commitment to fight corruption, including in public administration, by putting in place necessary institutional frameworks in their respective countries.
The G20, founded in 1999, comprises a mix of the world's largest and emerging economies, representing about two-thirds of the world's population, 85 per cent of global gross domestic product and over 75 per cent of global trade.
The Agreement was adopted on December 12, 2015, by 195 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), replacing its predecessor Kyoto Protocol. It was finally ratified on November 4, 2016.
Trump in June announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, saying the deal agreed by more than 190 nations unfairly benefited countries like India and China.
In a separate meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump said the two were tackling “the problem and menace of North Korea.”
Modi had presented an 11-point action plan to counter terror, including a ban on the entry of officials from terrorism-supporting countries, into G-20 nations.
Arvind Panagariya, sherpa for India at the Summit, tweeted about the "interaction", along with pictures of the two leaders and others just before start of the second day of working sessions of the G20 Summit ending today.
Sergey Lavrov also added that President Trump accepted the denial by his Russian counterpart.
PM Modi said that he looked forward to Abe’s forthcoming visit to India for the next annual summit and hoped it would further strengthen their cooperation.
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