PM Modi, French President Macron hold talks, agree on deepening engagement in Indo-Pacific

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron connected Wednesday called for enhancing commercialized and concern ties betwixt the 2 countries and committed to further deepening their engagement successful the Indo-Pacific and assorted planetary forums and initiatives.

After their wide-ranging talks, the 2 leaders besides underlined their committedness to factual actions to guarantee that the planetary AI assemblage tin thrust beneficial social, economic, and biology outcomes successful the nationalist interest.

A associated connection issued aft the gathering present said the talks covered a afloat spectrum of bilateral relations, arsenic good arsenic cardinal planetary and determination issues.

The 2 leaders stressed an urgent request for betterment successful the United Nations Security Council and agreed to coordinate intimately connected assorted planetary issues, including the UNSC matters.

French President Macron reiterated France's steadfast enactment for India's imperishable rank of the UNSC.

The 2 leaders reaffirmed their beardown committedness to India-France Strategic Partnership portion noting that it has steadily evolved into a multifaceted narration implicit the past 25 years.

Prime Minister Modi flew unneurotic from Paris to Marseille successful the French Presidential Aircraft past evening and held discussions present connected the afloat spectrum of bilateral relations and cardinal planetary and determination issues.

This was followed by delegation-level talks aft accomplishment successful Marseille.

The 2 leaders reviewed practice successful the strategical areas of defence, civilian Nuclear Energy and Space. They besides discussed ways to fortify collaboration successful the fields of Technology and Innovation.

This country of concern assumes greater salience successful the backdrop of the conscionable concluded AI Action Summit and the upcoming India-France Year of Innovation successful 2026, the connection said.

The leaders besides called for enhancing commercialized and concern ties.

President Macron besides hosted a meal successful honour of the Prime Minister successful the coastal municipality of Cassis, adjacent Marseille. Prime Minister invited President Macron to sojourn India.

The database of 10 outcomes included the India-France Declaration connected AI, motorboat of the logo for the India-France Year of Innovation 2026, and Letter of Intent betwixt India's Department of Science and Technology (DST) and France's Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) France to found the Indo-French Centre for the Digital Sciences.

An statement was besides signed for hosting 10 Indian startups astatine the French start-up incubator Station F, portion a Declaration of Intent was signed connected the constitution of a concern connected Advanced Modular Reactors and Small Modular Reactors.

Other outcomes included the renewal of MoU betwixt the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives of France (CAE), for practice with the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP).

And the implementation of an statement betwixt DAE of India and CEA of France concerning practice betwixt GCNEP India and Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INSTN), France.

A associated declaration of intent connected Triangular Development Cooperation was signed, portion the 2 leaders besides jointly inaugurated the Indian consulate successful Marseille, and a declaration of intent was signed betwixt The Ministry for the Ecological Transition, Biodiversity, Forests, Marine Affairs and Fisheries and The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change successful the Field of Environment.

Modi reached France connected Monday and besides co-chaired the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit on with Macron.

This is Modi's sixth sojourn to France and follows Macron's sojourn to India successful January 2024 arsenic the Chief Guest for the 75th Republic Day of India.

The 2 leaders besides visited the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor installation here.

The 2 leaders reiterated their telephone for reformed and effectual multilateralism to prolong an equitable and peaceful planetary order, code pressing planetary challenges and hole the satellite for emerging developments, including successful the technological and economical domains.

The 2 leaders stressed, successful particular, the urgent request for the betterment of the United Nations Security Council and agreed to coordinate intimately successful multilateral fora, including connected UNSC matters.

The 2 leaders agreed to fortify conversations connected the regularisation of the usage of the veto successful lawsuit of wide atrocities.

They held extended discussions connected semipermanent planetary challenges and existent planetary developments and agreed to intensify their planetary and determination engagement, including done multilateral initiatives and institutions.

They welcomed the continuation of the practice of aerial and maritime assets successful enactment with the ambitious Defence Industrial Roadmap agreed successful 2024.

Both leaders commended advancement successful collaboration successful the operation of Scorpene submarines successful India, including indigenisation, and successful peculiar the enactment carried retired with a presumption to the integration of DRDO-developed Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) into P75-Scorpene submarines and the analyses conducted regarding the imaginable integration of the Integrated Combat System (ICS) into the aboriginal P75-AS submarines.

Both leaders besides welcomed the commissioning of the sixth and last submarine of the P75 Scorpene-class project, INS Vaghsheer, connected 15 January 2025.

Both sides welcomed the ongoing discussions connected missiles, chopper engines and pitchy engines.

They besides welcomed the fantabulous practice betwixt the applicable entities successful the Safran radical and their Indian counterparts.

Modi invited the French Army to instrumentality a person look astatine the Pinaka rocket launcher, emphasising that an acquisition of this strategy by France would beryllium different milestone successful Indo-French defence ties.

In addition, President Macron welcomed the determination to see India arsenic an perceiver to the Eurodrone MALE programme managed by OCCAR, which is different measurement guardant successful the increasing spot of our concern successful defence instrumentality programmes.

Both leaders had a elaborate speech connected planetary issues, including the Middle-East and the warfare successful Ukraine, the connection said.

They agreed to prosecute their efforts to coordinate and stay intimately engaged regularly.

The 2 leaders agreed to enactment unneurotic much intimately connected implementing the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor (IMEC) and acknowledged the strategical determination of Marseille successful the Mediterranean Sea.

They underlined the cardinal value of strengthening EU-India relations, successful presumption of the upcoming India-EU acme astatine the earliest imaginable successful New Delhi.

They appreciated the increasing practice successful trilateral format with Australia and with the United Arab Emirates.

They commended the associated subject exercises that took spot betwixt France, India and the United Arab Emirates, arsenic good arsenic the information of India, France and Australia successful each others' multilateral subject exercises.

The 2 leaders underlined their communal committedness to a free, open, inclusive, unafraid and peaceful Indo-Pacific region.

They reiterated their tendency to proceed to deepen bilateral practice successful the abstraction sector.

The 2 leaders reaffirmed their unequivocal condemnation of coercion successful each its forms and manifestations, including cross-border terrorism. They called for the disruption of coercion financing networks and harmless havens.

They further agreed that nary state should supply harmless haven to those who finance, plan, support, oregon perpetrate violent acts.

The leaders besides called for concerted enactment against each terrorists.

They welcomed the ongoing discussions to make a broad model for enhanced bilateral practice successful the civilian aviation sector, which is astatine precocious stages, the connection said.

Noting the grounds level of bilateral commercialized successful 2024, they acknowledged that determination is immense untapped imaginable for commercialized and concern betwixt the 2 countries.

Both leaders highlighted the request to support beardown assurance for companies investing successful France and successful India.

Prime Minister Modi congratulated President Macron connected the palmy organisation of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics 2024 and thanked President Macron for his willingness to stock France's acquisition and expertise regarding the organisation and securing of large planetary sporting events successful the discourse of India's bid to big the Olympics and Paralympics Games successful 2036.