French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday after a phone conversation that France and India intend to work together in the open area between the Indo-Pacific. MTI reported that the French president indicated that France is committed to strengthening India’s strategic autonomy, including industrial and technology funds, in the context of a strong relationship based on mutual respect and trust between the two strategic partners.
The phone call came on the heels of Australia’s seeming entry into a new alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom without notifying France, including the purchase of American nuclear-powered submarines, and France’s condemnation of nearly 90 billion dollar contract conventional submarines.
The Elysee Palace contacts do not directly refer to the diplomatic crisis, but confirm that the goal of the rapprochement between Paris and New Delhi is to “strengthen regional stability and the rule of law, and to completely exclude any form of hegemony” in the Indo-Pacific region. The region that is currently experiencing tensions between the giants of America and China. The rapprochement between the two countries, according to Paris, corresponds to the Indo-European relationship and European action in the Indo-Pacific region. (…) Bilateral cooperation must be strengthened in all fields, especially in the economic field.
In recent years, France has concluded a number of agreements with India, such as the sale of Rafale fighters, joint operations in the Indian Ocean, and the opening of military bases in Djibouti, Reunion and the United Arab Emirates for India. Navy. The presidency also noted regular consultations between French and Indian leaders ahead of the G20 summit in Rome in late October and the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland in November.
Jean-Yves Le Drian will meet his Indian counterpart on Tuesday at this year’s session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. French and US announcements indicate that Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with US President Joe Biden in the near future about a US submarine sale deal with Australia.
