Modi to meet Zelensky in Hiroshima: The two will meet for the first time since the attack on Russia

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone to Japan to participate in the G-7 conference. India has been invited as a guest nation in this conference. Prime Minister Modi is going to meet President Zelensky of Ukraine in Hiroshima there. Modi will meet Zelensky in person for the first time since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. Earlier in December 2022, there was a phone conversation between the two. After that conversation, Zelensky said that he expected India’s cooperation to take forward his peace formula. At that time, he had congratulated Modi for India’s presidency at the G-20 summit. Earlier in October 2022, there was a phone conversation between the two. Then Modi had told Zelensky that war cannot be the solution to any problem.

Zelensky has also arrived in Hiroshima to attend the Group-of-7 (G-7) summit as a guest of honor. There today (Friday) the leaders of the world’s seven most powerful democracies have started discussions on punishing Russia after the attack on Ukraine.

Significantly, this is the first time Zelensky has traveled so far from his war-torn country. New sanctions to be imposed on Russia will be discussed. Secretary of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine, Olekat Damiboyi, confirmed on television that Zelensky was to attend the summit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone to Japan to participate in the G-7 Summit. He is on a six-day foreign tour. He is scheduled to visit Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia in those six days. Their first camp is in Hiroshima, Japan. Where he will participate in the 49th summit of G-7. India has been invited as the guest nation. He will attend all the three sessions of that conference. He will hold bilateral talks with his Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Japan.

Significantly, after 66 years, an Indian Prime Minister has visited Hiroshima. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visited Hiroshima in 1957.