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PM Modi reaches Australia to attend G-20 summit

by IBNS 14 Nov 2014, 11:43 am

Brisbane, Nov 14 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Brisbane in Australia to attend the annual summit of the Group of 20 of the worlds developed and emerging economies, media reports said.

PM Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Australia since Rajiv Gandhi did in 1986. He will will also go to three other Australian cities.

The two-day G20 summit will be held in Brisbane from November 15.

After the summit, PM Modi will proceed to Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne between November 16 and November 18, sources said. He is also expected to meet UK Prime Minister David Cameron later on Friday evening.

The PM will travel to Fiji on a day-long visit on November 19 before coming to India the next day. On the first leg of his 10-day tour, he already visited Myanmar to attend the ASEAN-India summit and the East Asia Summit.