President Alberto Fernández held a bilateral meeting this Sunday with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, as part of the activities taking place at the G7 summit taking place in Munich, Germany.
As confirmed by Télam from official sources, Fernández received Modi at the hotel where he is staying, the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, in what was the first of the bilateral meetings that the president has planned.
After the meeting, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero highlighted the “will” of both leaders to “strengthen the bilateral relationship, taking into account that bilateral trade with India was a record last year.”
For his part, Modi highlighted from his social networks that with Fernández he discussed “ways to deepen commercial and cultural ties between India and Argentina.”
Accelerating friendship with Argentina.
P.M @narendramodi held talks with President @alferdez in Munich. The two leaders discussed ways to deepen commercial and cultural linkages between India and Argentina. ?? ?? pic.twitter.com/y3GuLHiVnR
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 26, 2022
Fernández was specially invited by the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to participate on Monday in the summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Group of 7 (G7) that will take place at the Schloss Elmau, in the Bavarian district of Garmisch -Partenkirchen.
The G7 is the forum that brings together the most powerful economies in the world and in which a debate is planned on the effects of the war in Ukraine and the food crisis resulting from the conflict.
Fernández arrived at 3:00 p.m. local time (10 in Argentina) at the Munich-Franz Josef Strauss International Airport.
The President was accompanied at the meeting by Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero; the Legal and Technical Secretary, Vilma Ibarra; the general secretaries of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, and of Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Beliz, and the spokeswoman for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, members of the official delegation.
