Narendra Modi to leave for BRICS summit on 13th july
New Delhi:Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for the two-day summit of five-nation BRICS forum in Brazil on July 13 and will make a transit stop in Germany.
Modi’s first participation in a multilateral meeting after taking over as Prime Minister will also give him an opportunity to meet with world leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and heads of South American countries.
“Prime Minister Modi will leave on July 13,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told reporters in the national capital.
He added that Prime Minister will be making a transit stop in Germany but did not confirm whether any meeting has been planned with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
With an annual bilateral trade of more than 18 billion Euros, Germany is India’s biggest trading partner in Europe and a meeting between both leaders assumes significance.
