PM Modi embarks on 5-nation visit

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a five-nation tour beginning Wednesday to participate in the BRICS Summit in Brazil and expand India's ties with several key nations of the Global South.

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Besides Brazil, PM Modi will visit Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, and Namibia during the eight-day trip, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

In the first leg of the visit, he will undertake a visit to Ghana from July 2 to 3. This will be the PM's first ever bilateral visit to Ghana and the first prime ministerial visit from India to Ghana in three decades.

During the visit, Modi will hold talks with the President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama to review the strong bilateral partnership and discuss further avenues to enhance it through economic, energy, and defence collaboration, the MEA said.

From Ghana, Modi will travel to Trinidad and Tobago on a two-day visit from July 3 to 4. It will be the first visit by an Indian PM to the country since 1999.

PM Modi said India is committed to BRICS as a vital platform for cooperation among emerging economies as he left on a week-long visit to five countries. He will attend the bloc's meeting in Brazil. "Together, we strive for a more peaceful, equitable, just, democratic and balanced multipolar world order," he said in his departure statement.