New Delhi, June 27 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on July 2 on a week-long five-
nation visit to Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil and Namibia during which he will attend
the 17th BRICS Summit in Brazil.
On the first leg of his tour, the Prime Minister will travel to Ghana from July 2-3. This will be the Prime Minister’s first ever bilateral visit to Ghana. This Prime Ministerial visit from India to Ghana is taking place after three decades.
During the visit, he will hold talks with the President of Ghana to review the strong bilateral partnership and discuss further avenues to enhance it through economic, energy, and defence collaboration, and development cooperation partnership.
This visit will reaffirm the shared commitment of the two countries to deepen bilateral ties and strengthen India’s engagement with the ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States] and the African Union.
In the second leg of his visit from July 3-4, Prime Minister Modi will visit Trinidad and Tobago at the invitation of his counterpart Kamla Persad-Bissessar. This will be his first visit to the country as Prime Minister and the first bilateral visit at the Prime Ministerial level to T&T since 1999.
During the visit, he will hold talks with the President of Trinidad & Tobago, Christine Carla Kangaloo and the Prime Minister and discuss further strengthening of the India-Trinidad & Tobago relationship.
Prime Minister Modi is also expected to address a Joint Session of the Parliament of T&T.
In the third leg of his visit, at the invitation of the President of Republic of Argentina Javier Milei, Prime Minister Modi will be in Argentina from July 4-5. Prime Minister is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with President Milei to review ongoing cooperation and discuss ways to further enhance India-Argentina partnership in key areas including defence, agriculture, mining, oil and gas, renewable energy, trade and investment and people-to-people ties.
In the fourth leg of his visit, at the invitation of President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Prime Minister Modi will travel to Brazil from July 5-8 attend the 17th BRICS Summit followed by a State Visit.
This will be the Prime Minister’s fourth visit to Brazil. The 17th BRICS Leaders’ Summit will be held in Rio de Janeiro. During the Summit, Prime Minister will exchange views on key global issues including reform of global governance, peace and security, strengthening multilateralism, responsible use of artificial intelligence, climate action, global health, economic and financial matters.
The Prime Minister is also likely to hold several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Summit.
For the State Visit to Brazil he will travel to Brasilia where he will hold bilateral discussions with President Lula on the broadening of the Strategic Partnership between the two countries in areas of mutual interest, including trade, defence, energy, space, technology, agriculture, health and people to people linkages.
In the final leg of his visit, at the invitation of the President of Namibia Dr. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Prime Minister Modi will be in Namibia on July 9. This will be the first visit of the Prime Minister to Namibia, and the third ever Prime Ministerial visit from India to Namibia. During his visit, he will hold bilateral talks with President Nandi-Ndaitwah.
Prime Minister Modi will pay homage to the Founding Father and first President of Namibia, Late Dr. Sam Nujoma. He is also expected to give an address at the Parliament of Namibia.
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