New Delhi: Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi said “India has been invited as a guest to the G7 meeting by the United Kingdom this year. This meeting will also witness the involvement of other countries including Australia, South Korea, and South Africa.
G7 is an intergovernmental organization that includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Global health cooperation was the key issue that was discussed during the meeting, under the UK’s G7 Presidency.
“Second meeting of the Sherpas of #G7 & Guest countries held today. Shri Suresh Prabhu, India’s #G7 Sherpa, attended the meeting. Key priority issues under UK`s #G7 Presidency agenda discussed, including preparations for the COP26 Summit and global health cooperation,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted.
The COP26 event is a global United Nations summit about climate change and how countries are planning to tackle it.
In January, the UK extended an invite to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a guest to the G7 summit, which is scheduled to take place in Cornwall from June 11 to 14 this year.
Prabhu on his official Twitter handle said “the roadmap of the upcoming COP26 under the presidency of the United Kingdom was discussed.”
“We also discussed the roadmap of the upcoming COP26 under the presidency of United Kingdom and focussed on the important challenge of climate change that is being faced by the world today,” he said in a statement.
-Vinayak