PM Modi departs for Japan to attend G7 Summit in Hiroshima, will also visit Papua New Guinea & Australia

PM Narendra Modi has left for a six-day visit to Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia. PM Modi will attend multilateral summits including G-7, Quad Group. During the visit PM Modi is likely to attend over 40 programs.

PM Narendra Modi has left for Hiroshima, Japan to attend the G7 Summit under the Japanese Presidency at the invitation of H.E. Mr. Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan.

In his departure statement, PM Modi said his presence at the G7 summit is “particularly meaningful” as India is holding the G20 presidency this year. I will look forward to exchange views with the G7 countries and other invited partners on challenges that the world faces and the need to collectively address them. I would also be holding bilateral meetings with some of the leaders attending the Hiroshima G7 Summit. It will be a pleasure to meet Prime Minister Kishida again after his recent visit to India for the India – Japan Summit.”

PM Modi leaves for Japan in first leg of three-nation visit
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From Japan, PM Modi will visit Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This will be his first visit, as also the first ever visit by any Indian Prime Minister, to Papua New Guinea. PM Modi will host on 22 May 2023 the 3rd Summit of the Forum for India–Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC III Summit) jointly with H.E. Mr. James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. FIPIC had been launched during PM Modi’s visit to Fiji in 2014.

PM Modi said, ” I look forward to engaging with the PIC Leaders on issues that bring us together, such as climate change and sustainable development, capacity building and training, health and well-being, infrastructure and economic development.”

Apart from the FIPIC engagements, PM Modi will hold bilateral talks with Papua New Guinea Governor General Sir Bob Dadae, Prime Minister Marape and some of the other PIC Leaders participating in the Summit.