At the 12th edition of the G20 Summit, which began on Friday in Hamburg, Germany, world leaders gathered to discuss the anti-terrorism fight and means to develop and boost open trade. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is attending the event, arrived in the port city on Thursday after his three-day visit to Israel.
This year’s two-day G20 Summit’s theme is ‘Shaping an Inter-connected World’. PM Modi met the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) leaders on the summit’s sidelines on Friday and will have bilateral discussions with other world leaders in attendance.
Here are some candid photographs of our prime minister and some other world leaders at the G20 Summit, which were widely shared on social media:
Modi meets Brazil’s President Michael Temer.
Modi interacts with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets PM Modi at the beginning of the summit:
PM Modi greets his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
Joko Widodo, former president of Indonesia, greets PM Modi.
World leaders greet each other:
Even as as leaders from the world's top economies gathered for the summit on Friday, anti-capitalist protesters set fire to cars, barricades, rubbish bins and wooden pallets in Hamburg.
Police reports claim that the violence which started on Thursday continued well into Friday, with agitators slashing the tires of a car belonging to the Canadian delegation to the G20 summit and smashing windows of the consulate of Mongolia.
(With inputs from PTI)
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