PM Modi to visit Japan, Papua New Guinea, and Australia in May

• PM Modi will make the maiden stop of the tour in Japan's Hiroshima
• PM Fumio Kishida will give the formal invitation to PM Modi when he visits New Delhi later this month
• The PM will conclude his three-nation visit in Australia

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to pay an official visit to Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Prime Minister Modi will make the first stop of the tour in Hiroshima, Japan, where he will represent India at the G7 summit on May 20 and 21.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will extend a formal invitation to PM Modi when he visits Delhi later this month. The invitation also marks Prime Minister Modi's fifth consecutive visit to the G7 summit since 2019.

Prior to Kishida's invitation, PM Modi was invited by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2019 for a summit in Biarritz. In 2020, former United States President Donald Trump extended an invitation to Prime Minister Modi, but the Summit had to be postponed due to the coronavirus crisis. Another invitation was sent to Prime Minister Modi by the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was invited to the G7 summit, but again cannot travel due to the second wave of the coronavirus.

However, last year the G7 summit was held in Germany and PM Modi was invited to Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps. The Prime Minister will wrap up his three-nation visit in Australia, where he will attend the Quad Summit in Sydney from May 23-24. During Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to India earlier this month, he formally extended an invitation to Prime Minister Modi to attend the summit.

In a press statement in New Delhi, PM Modi said, "I thank Prime Minister Albanese for inviting me to the Quadrant Leaders Summit to be held in May this year." PM Modi attended the virtual meeting of the Quad Leaders in March 2022, the in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo in May 2022 and in Washington in 2021.