PM Modi to attend G20 Summit in South Africa tomorrow

At the Summit, “Prime Minister will put forth India’s perspectives on the G20 agenda. The Prime Minister is expected to speak in all the ‘three sessions’ of the Summit,” the MEA statement said.

Written by Shubhajit Roy

New Delhi | Updated: November 20, 2025 03:48 AM IST

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Modi is set to visit Johannesburg in South Africa for the 20th G20 Leaders’ Summit on 21-23 November. G20

Modi is set to visit Johannesburg in South Africa for the 20th G20 Leaders’ Summit on 21-23 November. (File Photo)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 21-23 to attend the 20th G20 Leaders’ Summit, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Wednesday.

This will be the fourth consecutive G20 Summit being held in the Global South. India had hosted the summit in 2023, followed by Brazil in 2024. Indonesia had hosted the summit in 2022. At the Summit, “Prime Minister will put forth India’s perspectives on the G20 agenda. The Prime Minister is expected to speak in all the ‘three sessions’ of the Summit,” the MEA statement said.

On the margins of the Summit, the PM is expected to hold bilateral meetings with some leaders, besides participating in the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Leaders’ Meeting.

Among the leaders he is expected to meet are Japan’s new PM Sanae Takaichi, who assumed office last month. The two leaders have spoken over the phone.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had flagged the correlation between international peace and global development in his address at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New York in September this year.

US President Donald Trump will skip the G20 leaders summit, the first such absence by an American President since it began. The PM has been attending all G20 summits since he assumed office in 2014, and this will be his 12th leaders’ summit.

The US absence will be significant given the fact that it is going to be the host for the next G20 in 2026.

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Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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