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PM Modi joins world leaders for CHOGM retreat in UK

LONDON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday joined other heads of government for the leaders' retreat at Windsor Castle, which will conclude the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the UK.
The closed-door meetings comprise the informal segment of CHOGM, where the leaders meet without any pre-set agenda and without the presence of their close aides.
The issue of succession is expected to be dominant at the retreat at the grand Waterloo Chamber of the Castle, one of the homes of Queen Elizabeth II - the Head of the Commonwealth.
The Queen expressed her "sincere wish" that her son and heir Prince Charles stepped into her shoes in her opening address for CHOGM on Thursday and a consensus seems to be building around the 69-year-old royal.
Prime Minister Modi addressed the second plenary of the executive session, during which he reiterated India's focus on small island developing nations of the organisation and delivering "demand-driven, rather than donor-driven" assistance to the organisation's smaller member states.
Modi is scheduled to fly out to Germany at the end of the retreat for a brief bilateral meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin before he leaves for India.
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