Jaishankar meets Le Drain: India and France discuss bilateral motions and global issues.
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In these difficult times, when the globe seems to be out of order, due to the terrifying issues ranging from Russia-Ukraine War to Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan, the two global powers’ representatives met to put forward their stance on these motions and discuss the plausible solutions of the same. Other than that there were discussions over various bilateral issues.
On February 22nd 2022, the External Affairs Minister of India, S. Jaishankar met with his French counterpart. The two leaders spoke about a variety of regional and global problems, including the India-EU relationship, the Afghanistan situation, the Indo-Pacific Strategy, the South China Sea Dispute, the Iran nuclear agreement, and the Ukraine crisis.
The two Ministers decided to launch the Indo-French proposal for an Indo-Pacific Parks Partnership together. This cooperation intends to strengthen capacity in the Indo-Pacific region for sustainable management of protected areas by gathering and sharing regional experiences and expertise among important Indo-Pacific public and private natural park managers. Both parties also agreed on the "India-France Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance." The strategy intends to strengthen partnerships in the sphere of blue economy through institutional, economic, infrastructural, and scientific collaboration.
They also agreed to strengthen India-EU ties under the French presidency, as well as the need of starting discussions on the Free Trade and Investment Agreements and implementing the India-EU Connectivity Partnership. They also committed to work together in the UN Security Council on areas of common importance. Both Ministers committed to expand the Strategic Partnership, notably in trade and investment, defence and security, health, education, research and innovation, energy, and climate change. They agreed to sign a Joint Declaration of Intent in the Field of Sports soon in order to facilitate more people-to-people engagement. Strengthening the appropriate authorities' long-standing collaboration on public administration and administrative reforms.
France was one of the first nations to form a "strategic alliance" with India after the Cold War ended in January 1998. France was one of the few countries to back India's determination to conduct nuclear tests in 1998. Today, France has emerged as India's most dependable partner on terrorism and Kashmir concerns. Both nations maintain a Ministerial-level defence discussion. Regular defence exercises are conducted by the three services, namely Exercise Shakti (Army), Exercise Varuna (Navy), and Exercise Garuda (Air Force) (Air Force). The Indian Air Force (IAF) has received French Rafale multi-role combat aircraft. In 2005, India signed a contract with a French company to manufacture six Scorpene submarines in India's Malegaon dockyards under a technology-transfer arrangement.
The two nations also agreed to provide reciprocal logistics support under the Agreement on Reciprocal Logistics Support. The India-France Administrative Economic and Trade Committee (AETC) offers a proper platform for assessing and identifying measures to further enhance bilateral trade and investment, as well as to accelerate the settlement of market access concerns for the advantage of economic operators. Climate change, biodiversity, renewable energy, terrorism, cybersecurity, and digital technologies, among other issues. There have been collaborative attempts to reduce climate change and to establish the International Solar Alliance. Both nations have agreed on a cybersecurity and digital technology road plan.
France has paved the way for increased involvement with Europe on global issues, particularly in light of the region's uncertainties as a result of BREXIT. The new alliances with France, Germany, and other like-minded nations like as Japan should be considerably more crucial for India's impact on the world arena.
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