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At G20 Summit, PM Modi Meets World Leaders. Economy, Global Health Main Focus During Opening Session
<p><strong>New Delhi: </strong>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday interacted with world leaders, including US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Italy’s capital Rome.</p> <p>“On the sidelines of the @g20org Rome Summit, PM@narendramodi interacts with various leaders,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted.</p> <p>[tw]https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1454416374680408070[/tw]</p> <p>The leaders attending the summit also posed for a group photograph.</p> <p><strong>READ</strong>:<strong><a href="https://ift.tt/3vXfdq6"> ‘Very Warm Meeting’: PM Modi On Visiting Pope Francis At Vatican, Invites Him To Come To India</a></strong></p> <p>“World leaders meet in Rome for the @g20org Summit, an important multilateral forum for global good,” the PMO posted on the micro-blogging platform.</p> <p>[tw]https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1454404041392508934[/tw]</p> <p>Prime Minister Modi also held “productive discussions” with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit.</p> <p>“Productive discussions between PM @narendramodi and President @EmmanuelMacron on the sidelines of the @g20org Summit. India and France are cooperating extensively in various sectors. Today’s talks will add momentum to the bilateral ties between the two nations,” the PMO tweeted.</p> <p>[tw]https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1454429832557776898[/tw]</p> <p>Prime Minister Modi is participating in the summit along with other Heads of State of G-20 member countries, the European Union and other invited countries and International Organisations.</p> <p>The summit this year is centered around the theme - People, Planet, Prosperity. The thrust of the Summit is on economic and health recovery, climate change and sustainable development.</p> <p>The economy and global health was the focus during the opening session of the 16th G-20 Summit.</p> <p>Taking part in the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic began, the world leaders attending the G-20 Summit will focus on economic recovery post Covid-19, global minimum corporate tax rate and climate change besides others.</p> <p>The leaders attending the summit are likely to formally affirm their commitment to establishing a 15 percent global minimum corporate tax rate by 2023.</p> <p>This move is focused on preventing the multinational companies from stashing profits in the nations where they pay few or no taxes.</p> <p>The US President, the German Chancellor, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson also discussed on the sidelines of the summit the next steps on Iran’s nuclear program.</p> <p>Prime Minister Modi, who landed in Rome this morning, will join other G-20 leaders tomorrow in discussions on the global economic and health recovery from the pandemic, sustainable development and climate change, among other issues.</p> <p>“The primary purpose of his visit is to attend the 16th G-20 Summit. But he also is using the opportunity to do a number of bilateral meetings with Heads of State and Government. After his arrival, the Prime Minister met with the President of the European Council, His Excellency Mr. Charles Michel; and the President of the European Commission, Her Excellency Ms. Ursula von der Leyen,” Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said.</p> <p>Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi met Pope Francis in the Vatican City where they discussed “a wide range of issues”.</p> <p>It was the first-ever one-to-one meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Pope Francis wherein he invited the head of the Catholic Church to pay a visit to India.</p> <p>The Prime Minister shared photos of his meet with the Pope on Twitter and wrote: “Had a very warm meeting with Pope Francis. I had the opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues with him and also invited him to visit India”.</p> <p>[tw]https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1454369975171485696[/tw]</p> <p>The Prime Minister also met Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Vatican City State.</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ</strong>: <strong><a href="https://ift.tt/3Bosv09 Minister Narendra Modi's Full 4-Day Schedule Of COP26 And G20 Summit</a></strong></p> <p>Prime Minister Modi had earlier met his Italian counterpart Mario Draghi on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit.</p> <p>In their first in-person meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Modi congratulated his Italian counterpart for successfully hosting the G-20 in the midst of a global pandemic.</p>
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