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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be holding some of the crucial bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the ongoing G7 Summit in Canada's picturesque resort town of Kananaskis on Tuesday. According to the The Daily Jagran sources, PM Modi will hold bilaterals with Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, President of Mexico, Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine and Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada.

PM Modi at G7 Summit

PM Modi arrived in Canada's Calgary on Monday (local time) to participate in the G7 Summit at the invitation of Canada's Prime Minister. On arrival, he was met by Acting Indian High Commissioner Chinmoy Naik, Canadian officials, and leaders of Canada's First Nation, the native people of the country.He will go to Kananaskis where the summit started earlier on Monday under tight security and will feature him and other invitees at Tuesday's session.

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Hee's is the detailed schedule of PM Modi's G7 Summit: All timings in IST

9:45 pm: PM Modi arrival at Kananaskis Lodge for G7

10:30 pm: Official welcome

10:45 pm: Leaders outreach

11:00 PM: G7 family photo

11:15 PM: Bilateral meetings

Meeting with the German Chancellor

Meeting with the President of Mexico

Wednesday

3:00 am: Working Lunch: Energy Security: diversification, technology and infrastructure to ensure access and affordability in a changing world

Second round of bilateral meetings

Meeting with Giorgia Meloni

Meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Meeting with Mark Carney

5 am: Depart for Zagreb

Why is PM Modi's Canada visit is important? 

Notably, this time, abilateral meeting with the Canadian PM will be in the spotlight amid strained relations between the two nations. However, PM Modi will be missing US President Donald Trump, who was cutting short his presence at the summit to return home. Earlier French President Emmanuel Macron had claimed the US president would be leaving early to deal with the Iran-Israel crisis- a claim refuted by Trump in a humiliating manner.

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Other invitees to the G7 meeting are Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, and Lee Jae-Myung of South Korea, and Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese of Australia, and Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. This will be an opportunity for PM Modi to have face-to-face meetings with these powerful leaders of industrialised and emerging democracies after the Pahalgam terrorist attack and Operation Sindoor targeting terrorist outfits operating in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. PM Modi's visit comes at a pivotal moment for India-Canada relations, which Carney is trying to reset after it had been marred by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was influenced by Khalistan supporters.

(With inputs from agency)