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    New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi returned to India onThursday, after concluding his five-nation tour that included Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil and Namibia. The trip also saw the PM attending the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During his tour, PM Modi focused on strengthening bilateral ties, promoting economic cooperation, and enhancing India’s presence in the Global South, underscoring India’s growing global diplomatic engagement. Multiple significant announcements were made during the visits, along with the signing of MoUs. In Argentina and Brazil, key discussions centred on trade partnerships, investment opportunities, and collaboration in sectors like agriculture, technology, and defence. During the BRICS Summit, PM Modi engaged in high-level dialogues on global economic governance, sustainable development, and reforms in multilateral institutions.In Ghana and Namibia, the Prime Minister emphasised India’s commitment to deepening Global South’s cooperation, with talks friendly in spirit focusing on capacity-building, infrastructure projects, and educational partnerships. His visit to Trinidad and Tobago reinforced India’s longstanding cultural and people-to-people links within the Caribbean region.Brazil, Namibia, and Trinidad and Tobago conferred PM Modi with their highest civilian honors, ‘Grand Collar of the National Order of the Southern Cross’, ‘Order of the Most Ancient Welwitschia Mirabilis’, and ‘The Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago,’ respectively. With Namibia being the latest, Prime Minister Modi has been bestowed upon 27 international honors by a foreign government since he assumed office in May 2014.During his state visits PM Narendra Modi addressed the parliaments of Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Namibia, in doing so he equalled the combined number of addresses delivered in foreign parliament by all Congress Prime Ministers before him at 17. Congress Prime Ministers together – Manmohan Singh (7), Indira Gandhi (4), Jawaharlal Nehru (3), Rajiv Gandhi (2), and PV Narasimha Rao (1) – delivered 17 speeches in total.





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