New Delhi: india and france have agreed to decorate their partnership in high-give up era ahead of high minister Narendra Modi's go to to paris next month to wait a summit on synthetic intelligence.
the two nations reviewed development in bilateral cooperation below the India-France Horizon 2047 Roadmap at a meeting between overseas secretary vikram Misri and Anne-Marie Descôtes, the secretary-trendy of the French overseas ministry, in paris on Monday.
The discussions included key regions of bilateral cooperation, such as defence, civil nuclear strength, space, cyber and virtual, AI, institutional communicate mechanisms, and projects fostering humans-to-human beings exchanges, the outside affairs ministry stated in a assertion. "each facets agreed to make bigger bilateral partnership inside the regions of high-quit era sectors," it stated.
Modi is predicted to visit france for the AI Summit to be held at some stage in february eleven-12. The Horizon 2047 Roadmap became unveiled during a assembly among Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in paris in July 2023 with the aim of boosting bilateral ties in areas ranging from alternate and investment to strategic cooperation.
The talks among Misri and Descôtes also centered on the scenario in West Asia and the ukraine struggle, the external affairs ministry stated.
"further, the talk extended to global and nearby problems including cooperation in environment, weather alternate and health, cooperation inside the Indo-Pacific, trilateral dialogues, joint improvement initiatives in third international locations and ongoing global problems and crises along with those concerning the state of affairs within the center east and Russia-Ukraine war," it stated.
france is India's closest strategic companion in europe and a supplier of defence hardware ranging from Rafale combat jets to superior submarines. the 2 countries also cooperate on defence and protection issues and counter-terrorism.