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INTERNATIONAL | India-France Relations
A New Chapter in India-France Cooperation
From Strategic Trust to
Global Leadership
The decades-old strategic partnership hile 2047 will mark the centenary year of
between India and France has reached new India’s independence, it will also mark 100
heights in recent years. Shared democratic Wyears of diplomatic relations between India
values, support for a multipolar world order, and France and 50 years of strategic partnership.
and commitment to global peace have made The two countries have a long and strong history of
the two countries natural partners. French defence and security cooperation. France is among
President Emmanuel Macron’s fourth visit India’s key defence partners. Cooperation in the field
to India further strengthened this trust of civilian nuclear energy has also steadily strength-
and cooperation. During this visit, in the ened. The recent visit included detailed discussions on
presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, potential cooperation in large nuclear power plants,
several important agreements were signed in as well as new and emerging areas such as small
key areas such as defence, space, maritime modular reactors and advanced modular reactors.
security, clean energy, technology, and Emmanuel Macron visited India from February 17th
education, which will give new direction and to 19th, and during this visit, he participated in several
momentum to India-France relations... important events held in Mumbai and Delhi.
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programme of the Prime Minister.
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