Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged in a series of high-level bilateral meetings and informal interactions with global leaders and international organization heads during his three-nation foreign tour to Nigeria, Brazil, and Guyana from November 16 to 21.
During the tour, PM Modi participated in 31 bilateral meetings, starting in Nigeria, followed by Brazil for the 19th G20 Summit, and concluding with a historic state visit to Guyana.
In Nigeria, PM Modi met President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a bilateral meeting aimed at strengthening ties between the two nations.
In Brazil, the Prime Minister conducted 10 bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the G20 Summit. He met with leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Portugal, Italy, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, and Australia. Notably, this included his first meetings with five leaders: Prabowo Subianto, President of Indonesia; Luis Montenegro, Prime Minister of Portugal; Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the UK; Gabriel Boric, President of Chile; and Javier Milei, President of Argentina.
In addition to formal engagements, PM Modi held informal pull-aside meetings with leaders from Singapore, South Korea, Egypt, the US, and Spain. He also interacted with executives of major international organizations, including Ursula von der Leyen (European Union), Antonio Guterres (United Nations), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (World Trade Organization), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (World Health Organization), and Kristalina Georgieva and Gita Gopinath (IMF).
The final leg of the visit took place in Guyana, where PM Modi reinforced India’s ties with the Caribbean nations. He held nine bilateral meetings with leaders from Guyana, Dominica, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and St. Lucia.
