NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will head to Hamburg, Germany, to attend the G20 Summit after wrapping up his highly-anticipated Israel visit next week.

The Prime Minister will be in Israel from July 4 to 6 and then he heads to Germany for a two-day visit starting July 7. The G20 Summit will see a ‘leaders retreat’ on the morning of July 7 where the agenda on discussion will be fighting terrorism. However, while India will put forth its concerns on terrorism, the background will be the larger canvass and that of Europe which has been badly hit by terror attacks of late.

Modi met Chancellor Merkel two months ago. The two leaders were able to agree on the need to continue with their commitments to the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, despite the US retracting from it.

The G20 Summit will see the attendance of Merkel and US President Donald Trump. Germany has indicated that it will make climate change, free trade and the management of forced mass global migration the key themes of the G20 summit in Hamburg next week, putting the two leaders on a collision course.

ISRAELI PM’S RECIPROCAL VISIT LIKELY BY YEAR-END

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to pay a reciprocal visit to India by the year-end, a senior External Affairs Ministry official said on Thursday.

Netanyahu’s India visit will follow PM Narendra Modi’s three-day tour of the Jewish state from July 4. Modi’s visit will be the first by an Indian premier to Israel.

Source: The Tribune