‘This is a big diplomatic blunder…’, Congress raises questions on PM Modi’s absence from G7 meeting
Raising questions on not inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to participate in the G-7 summit, an organization of the world’s seven richest countries, Congress has called it a diplomatic failure of the government.
The party has said that for years the Prime Minister of India has been continuously invited to this prestigious conference, but not getting an invitation to the conference being held in Canada is a diplomatic mistake similar to the mediation done between India and Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.
The conference is going to be held on 15 June
Congress’s Communication General Secretary Jairam Ramesh issued a statement on not inviting the Indian head of state to the G-7 and said that the Presidents of America and France, Prime Ministers of Britain, Japan, Italy and Canada and the Chancellor of Germany will participate in this conference being held in Kananaskis of Alberta province of Canada from 15 June. Apart from this, the Presidents of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Ukraine and the Prime Minister of Australia have also been invited to the conference.
Even after 2014, the tradition of inviting Indian Prime Ministers to these summits continued. But for the first time in six years, Vishwaguru will not be present at this Canada summit.
This is another big diplomatic blunder: Congress
Taking a dig at the government, he said that no matter how much ‘spin’ is given to this, the truth is that this is another big diplomatic blunder. Just like the Indian government overturned our decades-old foreign policy by giving America an opportunity to mediate between India and Pakistan.
This move gave the American officials the freedom to openly appeal to continue the dialogue between India and Pakistan at a ‘neutral site’. The Congress General Secretary said that before 2014, G-7 was actually G-8, which also included Russia.
At that time, the then Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was invited to the G-8 summits and his words were listened to seriously there. Giving an example of this, Jairam said that in a similar conference held in Germany in June 2007, the famous Singh Merkel formula was presented, which was considered to set the direction of international talks on climate change.
