India and France held high-level Foreign Office Consultations in Paris, signalling a renewed push to deepen their strategic partnership across key sectors, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.<\/p>\n
The talks were co-chaired by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Martin Briens, Secretary-General of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n
During the visit, Misri also met France\u2019s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot and held discussions with Emmanuel Bonne, Diplomatic Advisor to the President Emmanuel Macron, underscoring the importance both sides attach to sustained political engagement.<\/p>\n
According to the MEA, the consultations included a comprehensive review of the expanding India-France relationship, particularly following its elevation to a Special Global Strategic Partnership and President Macron\u2019s visit to India in February this year.<\/p>\n
Officials assessed progress on key initiatives, including the India-France Year of Innovation, collaboration on economic security, and efforts to boost STEM mobility, with a focus on increasing the number of Indian students in France.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiscussions spanned a wide spectrum of strategic cooperation, including defence, civil nuclear energy, space, cyber and digital technologies, and artificial intelligence,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n
The two sides also reviewed institutional dialogue mechanisms and initiatives aimed at strengthening people-to-people and cultural ties.<\/p>\n
On the global front, India and France exchanged views on climate change, environmental cooperation, health partnerships, and developments in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n
They also discussed trilateral frameworks, joint projects in third countries, and evolving situations in West Asia and Ukraine, the MEA added.<\/p>\n
Both sides agreed to maintain the momentum of engagement, with Misri and Briens set to meet again later this year for the Strategic Space Dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India and France held high-level Foreign Office Consultations in Paris, signalling a renewed push to deepen their strategic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5064,5065,5066,5067,5068,2950,5069,5070,5,5071,5072],"class_list":{"0":"post-5882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-foreignofficeconsultations","9":"tag-indiafrance","10":"tag-indiafranceyearofinnovation","11":"tag-indopacific","12":"tag-stemmobility","13":"tag-cybersecurity","14":"tag-defensecooperation","15":"tag-diplomaticties","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-globalcooperation","18":"tag-strategicpartnership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}