In his statement, PM Modi said, "I give my best wishes to Brazil's President and my friend Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and hand over the presidency gavel to him."
The rail-shipping corridor project aims to establish railway connections between Arab countries in the Levant and the Gulf, with additional plans to link to India through Gulf seaports. The other end of the project may subsequently extend to Europe.
India has held a persistent approach and policy on the Ukraine war. Its repeated attempts to broker talks between Russia and Ukraine, while also not letting the stakeholders' position derail its policy shows that India has indeed drawn the world's attention to Asia.