NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi landed in Calgary on Monday night (native time) to take part within the G7 Summit that’s going down on the close by Kananaskis village in Alberta. Throughout his 23-hour keep in Canada, Prime Minister Modi will deal with 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 shall be Modi’s first go to to Canada since 2015. Official sources mentioned his programme remains to be being labored on to make sure as many bilateral engagements as potential. 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 shall be India’s twelfth participation, and Modi’s sixth, in Outreach Periods of G7 Summits. India has been usually getting invites for the G7 since 2019, in an indication of the significance the group of most economically superior nations attaches to India. Indian govt sources highlighted the truth that India’s economic system is now bigger than no less than three G7 member nations – France, Italy, and Canada.“India in 2023 concluded its G20 presidency and is a robust voice of the World South. India has all the time 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 nations within the G7 to debate essential matters akin to AI, power, Africa, and the Mediterranean. “This session was an important platform the place the G7 and Outreach International locations shared their views and views, furthering the collective effort to deal with world challenges,” mentioned an official.Based on Indian authorities, from its preliminary concentrate on financial points, the G7 has steadily turn into a discussion board for session to seek out frequent floor on main world challenges, together with peace and safety, counter-terrorism, growth, schooling, well being, setting and local weather change. Modi has previously raised the problem of terrorism and is once more anticipated to take action, as India seems to galvanise help for its marketing campaign to isolate Pakistan after the Pahalgam assault.