It will be a packed day for Prime Minister Narendra Modi ashe is slated to meet four world leaders and participate in two sessions at theG7 summit in Biarritz, France. He will be meeting US President Donald Trump,Senegal President Macky Sall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of Chile Sebastian Piñera.

The two sessions wherein he will be participating are on Climate,Biodiversity, Oceans & on Digital Transformation.

The most talked about meet will be with US President Donald Trump that will take place at 3.45 pm and will continue till 4.30 pm. This will be the second meet between the two leaders this year and comes two months after they met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.This is also thefirst time that Modi and Trump would meet after New Delhi abrogated Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The prevailing India-Pakistan situation in the backdrop of New Delhi’s move is bound to be discussed.

"India’s decision to rescind Article 370 in Kashmir isan internal decision, but certainly with regional implications. And PresidentTrump will likely want to hear how Prime Minister Modi intends to calm regionaltensions in light of this significant move", a senior Trump administrationofficial had said in a backgrounder teleconference on Trump's G7 summit.DonaldTrump has on three occasions offered to mediate on Kashmir, and the same hasirked New Delhi. India has made it clear that ties with Pakistan follow Shimlaand Lahore agreements, according to which no third-party mediation is acceptable. Trade, defence ties and the Afghan peace process is also slated tobe discussed.

Including the meeting with the US President, Prime MinisterModi has six bilaterals on the sidelines of the G7 summit.

Prime Minister Modi has already met British Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Sundayevening. The talks with the British PM was focused on trade and investment,defence and security.

This was the first meet between the two leaders since BorisJohnson took charge as the British Prime Minister. The meeting lasted for 30minutes.Both leaders had a conversation last week in which PM Modicongratulated him for assuming charge as British PM.

During the same conversation, Prime Minister Modi had raisedthe issue of violent protests that took place outside the Indian mission byPakistani and Khalistani groups on Independence Day.

India is "Biarritz partner" country along withAustralia, Chile, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Egypt and Burkina Faso.Climate, biodiversity will be the main focus of the 45th G7 summit whose themeis "combating inequality".

It is after a gap of more than 10 years that India has beeninvited at the G7summit, the last time being in 2005 when the then BritishPrime Minister Tony Blair had invited the then Indian Prime Minister ManmohanSingh at the Gleneagles summit.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Modi was in France on a statevisit and met with French President Emmanuel Macron for the fifth time. He hadearlier visited France in 2017 followed by the visit of the French President in2018 and then meetings on the sidelines of G20 summit in Argentina and Japan inDecember 2018 and June 2019, respectively. After his France visit, the PrimeMinister went to the UAE and Bahrain where he met the top leadership andlaunched RuPay card.