‘India to host G20 summit in 2022’, announces Prime Minister Modi

PM Narendra Modi on Saturday announced that India will host the G20 summit in 2022. He said that since it was India's 75th Independence Day in 2022, the country had requested Italy if they could host the event in 2022 than 2021.

"It's India's 75th Independence Day in 2022 and we had requested Italy if we can get 2022 instead of 2021 (for hosting G20 summit). They accepted our request, others accepted it too.I'm grateful & I invite leadership from across the world to come to India in 2022," he said.

Japan will be hosting the event in 2019. Italy was supposed to host the summit in 2022 but it will host the event in 2021.

PM Narendra Modi had a historic meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit with Japan PM Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump.

Here are some of the tweets from PM Modi's G20 summit: