PM Narendra Modi is in Italy for the G7 Summit, where he is holding a series of key bilateral meetings with world leaders.

He met and exchanged hugs with French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The summit is being held at the luxurious Borgo Egnazia resort in Italy's Apulia region. India has been invited to the G7 Summit as an Outreach country

This is the first overseas trip that Prime Minister Modi has taken since taking office for the third time this month.

Sunak and Modi last met face-to-face in September of last year, during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, where they decided to quicken the FTA negotiations in the hopes of concluding them before the country's general elections.

But it's now anticipated that trade negotiations won't get up again until July 4, when a new UK administration is chosen. The India-UK FTA negotiations, which opened in January 2022, are aimed at significantly enhancing bilateral trade - currently worth around 38.1 billion pounds a year as per official statistics from earlier this year.

PM Modi met French President Emmanuel Macron believed to have discussed ways to further bolster the bilateral ties and exchanged views on global issues. The two leaders last met in January when the French President visited India to attend the 75th Republic Day of India.

The two leaders reiterated at their most recent encounter their commitment to the international partnership and bilateral cooperation established in Horizon 2047 and other papers from the July 2023 Summit. The ambitious and comprehensive Horizon 2047 Roadmap lays forth a plan for the bilateral partnership until 2047, the hundredth year of India's independence.