External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will begin a four-day visit to London from Monday. The visit to London is primarily to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of Group of Seven rich nations. The United Kingdom has invited India for an in-person G7 foreign ministers meeting.

The nations attending the G7 meet includes Australia, South Korea, South Africa, and the Chair and Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. A ministry of external affairs release said “External Affairs Minister will be visiting London from 3-6 May 2021 to participate in the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting, at which India has been invited as a guest country. He will thereafter undertake a bilateral visit to the UK." The meet is scheduled in London from May 3rd to 5th and will be the first physical G7 FMs meet to take place in over 2 years. The UK is sending supplies of oxygen concentrators to India to deal with the devastating covid pandemic. US Secretary of state Antony Blinken will also travel to London and a bilateral between the two is likely.

G7 is a grouping of 7 industrialized countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, US & UK - plus the EU. The key focus of the meet is ongoing covid crisis that continues to ravage large parts of the world but also Climate Change with the UK set to host the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) meet later this year.

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