Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today arrived here on a three-day visit to attend the G-20 summit.
After an overnight halt in Frankfurt, he flew in here accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur and a high-level delegation including National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia is already here.
The Prime Minister would have separate meetings with U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Singh is also scheduled to meet the leaders of the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia and China.
The Indian Prime Minister was received at the airport by senior Canadian protocol officers, Indian High Commissioner to Canada S.M. Gavai, Consul General of India Preeti Saran, Parliament Secretary to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Deepak Obhrai and Ontario Government Services Minister Harinder Takhar.
