# India Calls Media Arrangements for Modi Trump G7 Meeting Standard Practice After US Envoy's Claim > A day after US Ambassador Sergio Gor said New Delhi had asked for a no questions format at the June meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump, government sources described the back and forth over press arrangements as routine ahead of any VVIP visit. - Source: India Max - Canonical URL: https://indiamax.net/article/india-calls-media-arrangements-for-modi-trump-g7-meeting-standard-practice-after-us-envoy-s-claim - Author: India Max Staff - Section: Politics - Published: 2026-08-24T17:10:29.206Z - Updated: 2026-08-24T17:10:29.206Z - Tags: Modi, Trump, Sergio Gor, G7 - Hindi edition: https://indiamax.net/hi/article/india-calls-media-arrangements-for-modi-trump-g7-meeting-standard-practice-after-us-envoy-s-claim --- The Indian government has responded to a claim by US Ambassador Sergio Gor that New Delhi sought a no questions format for the media at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's June 17 meeting with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian les Bains, France, calling the discussions that took place around the event a normal part of preparing for any high level visit. Gor made the remarks at the Economic Times World Leaders Forum, recalling that Trump had initially agreed to the arrangement India had proposed for the interaction but changed course once the two leaders were in the room together, opening the floor to journalists instead. What followed stretched into a session lasting close to forty five minutes, with roughly fifty cameras and members of the media present, far beyond what a brief photo opportunity would typically involve. During that extended interaction, Trump took a question from an Indian journalist on Iran, and Modi used the sitdown to raise the safety of Indian sailors operating in the Strait of Hormuz, telling Trump that the issue mattered greatly to India, a sign that the meeting carried substantive content well past the optics of the press arrangement itself. Responding a day after Gor's comments surfaced, government sources pushed back on the framing without directly disputing that conversations about the press setup had taken place, saying that discussions on how a leader's public appearance should be handled are standard practice ahead of any VVIP visit and that the Indian side had simply conveyed the procedures it usually follows for such engagements. The episode also drew a pointed aside from Indian sources about the nature of these preparatory conversations more broadly, noting that delegations meeting the US President tend to stay cautious given how unpredictable such interactions with him can turn out to be, a remark that framed the original request less as an attempt to control the narrative and more as ordinary caution before an unscripted encounter with reporters in the room. --- Originally published by India Max. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://indiamax.net/article/india-calls-media-arrangements-for-modi-trump-g7-meeting-standard-practice-after-us-envoy-s-claim.