India’s Modi says invited for G7 summit in Canada

NEW DELHI: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that he had received an invitation from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to attend the G7 Summit in Kananaskis later this month.

“Look forward to our meeting at the Summit,” Modi said in a post on X.

 Meanwhile, finance leaders from the Group of Seven industrialised democracies will strive for unity on non-tariff issues when they meet in Canada this week, but may have trouble reaching consensus with a Trump administration intent on pushing allies to serve US interests.

The other six G7 members – Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and host Canada – want to keep the powerful Western policy alliance from fracturing over US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and reversals on climate change, global tax cooperation and Ukraine, G7 officials and economic diplomacy experts said.

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That may require less-specific communique language and avoidance of some topics. A source briefed on US positions in the talks said that any consensus needed to align with Trump administration priorities.

“We’re not inclined to do a communique just for the sake of doing a communique,” the source told reporters on condition of anonymity.

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will join fellow G7 finance ministers and central bank governors for the Tuesday-to-Thursday meeting in the Canadian Rocky Mountain resort town of Banff, Alberta. That puts disagreements over steep new tariffs imposed by Trump at the center of the discussions, but the US source said no bilateral trade deals would be announced at the G7 meeting.