PM Modi to Visit Manila for 23rd ASEAN-India Summit

India's Prime Minister will be in the Philippines in the third week of November. A note issued by the Prime Minister's Office on 12 November 2026 says that Narendra Modi will travel to Manila from 16 to 17 November 2026, on an invitation extended by Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., President of the Republic of the Philippines.

Two summits on one day

The multilateral business of the trip is packed into a single day. On 17 November 2026 the Prime Minister will join the 23rd ASEAN-India Summit, and on the same day he will take his seat at the 21st East Asia Summit. The Philippines hosts both meetings this year because it holds the ASEAN Chair for 2026. Both edition numbers are worth memorising: the leaders' meeting between India and the grouping is at its 23rd round, while the East Asia Summit, the wider table that seats ASEAN members alongside other partner countries, is at its 21st.

The Act East anchor

The announcement places the relationship with ASEAN at the centre of India's Act East Policy and of the country's vision for the Indo-Pacific. Two markers give this particular trip added weight. The year 2026 is being observed as the ASEAN-India Year of Maritime Cooperation. And in 2027 the two sides will commemorate 35 years of Dialogue Relations together with five years of their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

What the leaders will take up

At the ASEAN-India Summit the leaders are to take stock of how the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is being put into practice. That review covers the ASEAN-India Plan of Action 2026-2030, the roadmap of what the two sides mean to do together, and the summit will also chart where cooperation should head next. The East Asia Summit works differently: it is a forum for discussion rather than a progress review, giving India room to trade views with ASEAN and the other participating countries on matters of regional and global importance.

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