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In all likelihood when India’s space mission to moon culminates on Wednesday evening  on 23rd August 2023, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be surrounded with top leadership of BRICS countries in Johannesburg, South Africa at the event’s Summit Meeting.

Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra told reporters in New Delhi on Monday that prime minister will reach South Africa on Tuesday.

This time around, the 15th BRICS summit meeting consisting of top leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and Sough Africa will be the first in-person Summit after three consecutive years of virtual meetings due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Kwatra added that a business delegation from India will also be travelling to South Africa to attend the Business Tracks meetings and also the meetings of the BRICS Business Council, BRICS Women Business Alliance and the BRICS Business Forum.

“Prime Minister will depart tomorrow morning for Johannesburg where he would be participating in the 15th BRICS Summit that starts tomorrow and concludes on 24th August..,” the foreign secretary said.

He added, “The theme of the BRICS Summit this year is ‘BRICS and Africa: Partnership for mutually accelerated growth, sustainable development and inclusive multilateralism’.

“After completing his engagements in Johannesburg, PM will travel to Greece for an official visit on 25th August at the invitation of PM of Greece”, the foreign secretary said.

Informing about PM Modi’s visit to Greece on a special invitation of his counterpart  Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he said that both sides will look into ways to deepen and expand defence and security partnerships among other important areas.

“During  PM Modi’s visit to Greece, both sides will look to expand and diversify trade and investment segment of cooperation, deepen and expand defence and security partnership, infrastructure cooperation, shipbuilding industry…The visit would give both sides an opportunity to discuss also the regional and global issues of mutual interest and help broaden and deepen our bilateral engagement,” Vinay Kwatra added.