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To attend the upcoming BRIC Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left for Johannesberg, South Africa on Tuesday. Amid the speculation around BRICS expansion and China’s efforts to push the bloc into a geopolitical rival of G7, there are chances that PM Modi and XI Jinping will meet each other during the summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sideline of the BRICS summit. Giving a hint of the meeeting, PM Modi, on Tuesday, said that he looks forward to holding bilateral meetings with “some of the leaders present in Johannesburg”.
Shedding light upon PM Modi’s schedule in Johannesberg during the BRICS summit, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra in a special briefing, said that the schedule for bilateral meetings with leader is still being developed.
Providing details about the PM’s trip, Vinay Kwatra said,”For the 15th BRICS Summit, a business delegation from India is also travelling to South Africa to attend the Business Tracks meetings and also the meetings of the BRICS Business Council, BRICS Women Business Alliance and the BRICS Business Forum.”
In case Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping hold bilateral talks in the sidelines of the summit, it would be the first one snce the India-China standoff began on May 2020. Both of them met briefly in November last year, during a dinner hosted by Indonesian President Jojo Widodo in Bali.
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Updated: 22 Aug 2023, 10:45 AM IST
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