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Updated – June 17, 2025 02:12 pm IST
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One after leaving the G7 Leaders' Summit early on June 16, 2025 in Calgary, Alberta. Mr. Trump said he was leaving the summit a day early to return to Washington to try to deal with the conflict between Israel and Iran. | Photo Credit: AFP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Canada on Monday (June 16, 2025) to attend the G7 Summit at Kananaskis, his first visit to Canada in a decade, with discussions with world leaders to be focussed on crucial global issues, including energy security, technology and innovation.
Prime Minister Modi will also hold several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Summit, coming over a month after India’s Operation Sindoor that had targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attacks.
The G7 summit comes amidst rising geopolitical tensions, including escalating tensions in the Middle East in the wake of the strikes between Iran and Israel, as well as a trade war triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
Mr. Trump, who arrived in Kananaskis Sunday (June 15, 2025) for the G7 Summit was expected to have bilateral meetings with many world leaders. However, Mr. Trump is abruptly leaving the summit, departing a day early Monday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and the U.S. leader has declared that Tehran should be evacuated “immediately.”
Read: G7 leaders want to contain Israel-Iran conflict, as Donald Trump calls for talks between countries
The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal grouping of the world’s advanced economies- France, the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada and the European Union. Its members meet annually at the G7 Summit to discuss global economic and geopolitical issues.
India, the fifth-largest economy in the world, has regularly been invited to the Outreach session of the G7 Summit in the past few years.
The summit is expected to deliberate on pressing challenges facing the globe including the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the situation in West Asia.
U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off his time at the Group of Seven summit by suggesting that Russia and maybe even China should be part of the organisation.
The U.S. leader indicated that he would rather have the G7 become the G8 or possibly even the G9, although Russia and China would notably be authoritarian governments in an organisation whose members are democracies.
Six of the Group of Seven leaders are trying on the final day of their Tuesday to show the wealthy nations’ club still has the clout to shape world events despite the early departure of President Donald Trump.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and his counterparts from the U.K., France, Germany, Italy and Japan will be joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO chief Mark Rutte to discuss Russia’s relentless war on its neighbour.
– AP
U.S. President Donald Trump said his early departure from the G7 summit in Canada had “nothing to do” with a possible ceasefire between Israel and Iran, adding that France’s leader had been “wrong” to suggest otherwise.
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President Trump denies leaving G7 summit early for Israel-Iran ceasefire, criticizes Macron, emphasizes bigger issues at play.
The Group of Seven nations expressed support for Israel in a statement issued late on Monday and labeled its rival Iran as a source of instability in the Middle East, with the G7 leaders urging broader de-escalation of hostilities in the region.
“We affirm that Israel has a right to defend itself. We reiterate our support for the security of Israel,” G7 leaders said in the statement.
“Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” the statement added and said the G7 was “clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
Reuters
G7 leaders on Monday called for “de-escalation” in the Middle East starting with the Israel-Iran conflict, as US President Donald Trump hastily left the group’s summit.
Mr. Trump, who was making his return to the international diplomatic calendar, departed the gathering in the Canadian Rockies a day early as ally Israel pounded Iran.
After a day of statements backing diplomacy, Mr. Trump ominously took to social media to sound a warning to people in the Iranian capital, whose population is nearly 10 million.
“Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
AFP
The Group of Seven nations expressed support for Israel and labeled its rival Iran as a source of instability in the Middle East, in a statement issued late on Monday that called for peace and stability in the region.
The air war between Iran and Israel – which began on Friday when Israel attacked Iran with air strikes – has raised alarms in a region that had already been on edge since the start of Israel’s military assault on Gaza in October 2023.
Reuters
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he will discuss important global issues and emphasise the priorities of the Global South as he meets world leaders at the G7 Summit in Canada’s Kananaskis.
Mr. Modi arrived here Monday evening (local time), his first visit to Canada in a decade, with discussions with world leaders to be focussed on crucial global issues, including energy security, technology and innovation.
“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,” Mr. Modi said in a post on X Monday evening.
Canadian PM Carney defends inviting Indian PM Modi to G7 summit amid criticism, citing India's economic importance and global influence.
World leaders at the Group of Seven summit in Canada on Monday pushed U.S. President Donald Trump to back away from his punishing trade war, arguing that it poses a risk to global economic stability.
G7 leaders used the meeting to sit down with Trump one-on-one to make their case for the U.S. leader to seal agreements that would eliminate the worse of the U.S. tariff threat.
In official sessions, the leaders also warned Mr. Trump that the tariffs could bring serious harm to the world economy.
“Several participants asked to end the tariff dispute as soon as possible,” a senior German official told reporters on condition of anonymity.
They argued that the dispute weakens the G7’s economies and “in the end will only strengthen China,” the official said.
AFP
President Donald Trump is abruptly leaving the Group of Seven summit, departing a day early Monday (June 16, 2025) as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and the U.S. leader has declared that Tehran should be evacuated “immediately.”
World leaders had gathered in Canada with the specific goal of helping to defuse a series of global pressure points, only to be disrupted by a showdown over Iran’s nuclear program that could escalate in dangerous and uncontrollable ways. Israel launched an aerial bombardment campaign against Iran four days ago.
At the summit, Mr.Trump warned that Tehran needs to curb its nuclear program before it’s “too late.” He said Iranian leaders would “like to talk” but they had already had 60 days to reach an agreement on their nuclear ambitions and failed to do so before the Israeli aerial assault began. “They have to make a deal,” he said.
Asked what it would take for the U.S. to get involved in the conflict militarily, Mr. rump said Monday morning, “I don’t want to talk about that.“
Prime Minister Modi attends G7 Summit in Canada, focusing on global issues like energy security and technology.
Published – June 17, 2025
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