During his overseas travel, the PM talks with 31 heads of organisations and world leaders

Five days of intense diplomacy are characterised by a busy rush of bilateral engagements

INN/New Delhi, @Infodeaofficial

During his three-nation foreign journey, PM Modi engaged in 31 bilateral meetings and casual encounters with world leaders. He conducted ten bilateral meetings on the fringes of the G20 Summit in Brazil, including one in Nigeria. After that, he had nine bilateral meetings while in Guyana.

PM Modi and the President of Nigeria met bilaterally while in Nigeria. PM Modi met one-on-one with the presidents of Brazil, Indonesia, Portugal, Italy, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, and Australia while he was in Brazil.

This was the first of ten bilateral meetings between PM Modi and five leaders in Brazil: Prabowo Subianto, the president of Indonesia; Luis Montenegro, the prime minister of Portugal; Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the United Kingdom; Gabriel Boric, the president of Chile; and Javier Milei, the president of Argentina.

The PM of Brazil also held separate meetings and informal conversations with the leaders of Singapore, South Korea, Egypt, the United States, and Spain, as well as with the heads and executives of several international organisations, including the European Union’s Ursula von der Leyen, the United Nations’ Antonio Guterres, the World Trade Organization’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Health Organization’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva, and the IMF’s Gita Gopinath.

In Guyana, PM Modi conducted bilateral discussions with leaders of Guyana, Dominica, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada and St. Lucia.