• Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. 

• This was the fifth meeting between the two Prime Ministers in the last two years. The two leaders had met last in June 2024, in Puglia, Italy on the occasion of the G7 Summit.

• The two leaders reiterated their commitment to advancing the India-Italy Strategic Partnership and announced a Joint Strategic Action Plan 2025-29, which outlines their vision for the next five years. 

• The Action Plan will pursue joint collaborations, programmes and initiatives in key sectors of trade and investment, science and technology, new and emerging technologies, clean energy, space, defence, connectivity and people-to-people linkages.

• The two sides will hold regular ministerial and official dialogues across numerous domains. 

• Co-production, collaborations between respective industries and institutions, innovation and mobility would provide momentum and further depth to the bilateral partnership and benefit the economies and people of both countries.

• The action plan 2025-29 identified 10 specific pillars for advancing bilateral engagement.

They are:

i) Political dialogue

ii) Economic cooperation and investments

iii) Connectivity

iv) Science, technology, IT, innovation and startups

v) Space sector

vi) Energy transition

vii) Defence cooperation

viii) Security cooperation

ix) Migration and mobility

x) Culture, academic and people-to-people exchanges, cinema and tourism.

• PM Modi and Meloni also agreed to continue working together for the implementation of plurilateral strategic initiatives, including the Global Biofuels Alliance and the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, of which they are founding members.

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