G7 Summit: PM Modi Likely To Hold Pull-Aside Meet With Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to hold a pull-aside meeting with Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum on the sidelines of the G7 Outreach Summit. This would mark their first interaction, as Sheinbaum recently took office as Mexico’s first woman president, potentially paving the way for deeper India-Mexico ties under her historic leadership.

According media reports, on the sidelines of the summit, PM Modi is also likely to hold meetings with several other world leaders, including South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The G7 summit is the first international summit that Modi will attend after Operation Sindoor, India's precision strikes targeting terror camps in Pakistan last month, marked a decisive response to the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives, most of them tourists.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Calgary on Monday evening ahead of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, marking his first visit to Canada in a decade.

“Landed in Calgary, Canada, to take part in the G7 Summit. Will be meeting various leaders at the Summit and sharing my thoughts on important global issues. Will also be emphasising the priorities of the Global South,” Modi said in a post on X Monday evening.

Over the two-day summit (June 16–17), PM Modi's four‑day tour spans from Cyprus, Canada and Croatia in which PM Modi will engage with global leaders on energy security, technology, innovation and advancing the priorities of the Global South. This is his sixth consecutive G7 appearance of PM Modi.

Meanwhile, the G7 summit is proceeding without US President Donald Trump, who departed early to address the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, CBC news reported. Trump left the summit in Kananaskis, Canada, after Monday night's family dinner, citing the need to attend to pressing matters in the Middle East. Trump expressed satisfaction with the summit's progress.

With Inputs From Agencies