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Prime Minister Narendra Modi reacted to a selfie captured by the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Taking to his official X (formerly Twitter) account, the prime minister said that “meeting friends is always a delight”.
PM Modi also met Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Turkey President RT Erdogan, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu.
“Thank you, Dubai! It’s been a productive COP28 Summit. Let’s all keep working together for a better planet,” the prime minister said on X.
The main task at COP28 was a first-time assessment of countries’ progress towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting the global temperature rise to ‘well below’ 2 degrees Celsius while aiming for 1.5C. The first meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in 1995.
