NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi landed in Calgary on Monday night (native time) to take part within the G7 Summit that’s happening on the close by Kananaskis village in Alberta. Throughout his 23-hour keep in Canada, Prime Minister Modi will handle the G7 Outreach Session on Tuesday and have bilateral conferences, together with with host Canadian PM Mark Carney, earlier than departing for Croatia on Tuesday night. This will probably be Modi’s first go to to Canada since 2015. Official sources mentioned his programme continues to be being labored on to make sure as many bilateral engagements as doable. There was no readability until late on Monday if a proper bilateral assembly with US President Donald Trump was going to happen. A gathering with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can also be not dominated out.This will probably be India’s twelfth participation, and Modi’s sixth, in Outreach Classes of G7 Summits. India has been recurrently getting invites for the G7 since 2019, in an indication of the significance the group of most economically superior international locations attaches to India. Indian govt sources highlighted the truth that India’s financial system is now bigger than not less than three G7 member international locations – France, Italy, and Canada.“India in 2023 concluded its G20 presidency and is a robust voice of the World South. India has at all times introduced the problems of the World South to the fore throughout its interventions made on the earlier G7 summits,” mentioned an official.Within the final G7 Summit at Apulia in 2024, PM Modi joined different invited international locations within the G7 to debate essential subjects akin to AI, vitality, Africa, and the Mediterranean. “This session was a vital platform the place the G7 and Outreach Nations shared their views and views, furthering the collective effort to handle world challenges,” mentioned an official.In line with Indian authorities, from its preliminary give attention to financial points, the G7 has step by step turn out to be a discussion board for session to search out frequent floor on main world challenges, together with peace and safety, counter-terrorism, improvement, training, well being, setting and local weather change. Modi has previously raised the difficulty of terrorism and is once more anticipated to take action, as India appears to galvanise help for its marketing campaign to isolate Pakistan after the Pahalgam assault.