PM Modi, accompanied by six union ministers, will be in Davos on January 22-23 to attend the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, where he will give the opening plenary.

Negotiations on a bilateral investment protection pact will figure prominently during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Switzerland's President Alain Berset in Davos next week, the Swiss government has said.

This will be the first participation by an Indian prime minister in the WEF in over the past two decades. In 1997, the then prime minister H D Deve Gowda had attended the Davos summit.