French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters
India and France will make major announcements between Prime Minister Narendra in the field of defense, small modular reactors (SMRs), and aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO). Modi’s three-day visit to France early next week. It has been learned that the contract for the Indian Navy’s 26 Rafale M Fighter Jet will be announced during the visit and will close in the second half in India.
Modi arrived in Paris on the evening of February 10th, co-chaired the AI Action Summit with French President Emmanuel Macron and also for bilateral talks on Friday (February 7, February 2025). On the 7th), he gave an explanation to the media. Future visits. “Summits such as the AL Summit are important and timely, as Al has had a major impact on all sectors of economic, political, social and governance and have already had a major impact,” he said. “We are interested in AL applications that have been developed, deployed and used in a safe, humane, responsible and reliable way.”
“Issues of defense, security and sovereignty will be at the heart of the discussion and interesting presentations will be made during the visit,” the diplomatic source said. “We have a variety of stakeholders who can do a lot, but looking at recent history and what we can do, we don’t have any competitors when it comes to ‘manufacturing in India’ and technology transfer. ”
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On the evening of Monday (February 10, 2025), Modi attended the VVIP Summit dinner, and the AI Action Summit is scheduled to take place in the first half of Tuesday (February 11, 2025). The bilateral component of the visit begins on the afternoon of February 11th, with the CEO Round Table co-chaired by both leaders. Modi will then move to Marseille south of France, where India will open a consulate where bilateral talks will take place.
On February 12th, Modi visited the war cemetery and paid tribute to the Indian soldiers who had decided their lives in World War I. He also visits the site Cadarshe, the International Thermonuclear Test Reactor. “The two leaders will visit Kadalche, the location of the International Thermonuclear Test Reactor, a high science project in which India is a partner in several other countries,” Mithri said.
Diplomacy is about what we are doing and what we want to do in the future, not much we want to do. In addition to the Rafale-M Fighter deal, the contract for three additional Scorpene-class diesel-electric submarines is at an advanced stage that is likely to end in the coming months. Together, the deal is worth around $10-11 billion. Additionally, both countries, in the advanced stages of their talk for the co-design and joint development of 110 kN aero engines, will power advanced medium fighter jets, India’s fifth generation fighter jets under development.
The AI Summit will see the launch of AI Foundations for various projects on governance and inclusivity, sources also state that it provides the standard aspects of the domain. The source added that ethics must be brought to AI governance.
India is one of the first countries to confirm its participation in the AI summit, diplomatic sources say. At the summit, the United States will be represented by Vice President J.D. Vance and his deputy prime minister.
In addition to Indo-Pacific development and cooperation, the Middle Eastern European Economic Corridor (IMEC) of India has said it will be a key focus during bilateral talks between Prime Minister Modi and French President Macron. A major country that establishes special IMEC envoys.
It also focuses on people exchanged to people, with France setting a goal of having 30,000 Indian students in France by 2030, sources added. It’s currently 10,000.
The upcoming visit is Modi’s sixth official visit to France.
Suffern, whose engines power the Lafare and Mirage 2000 fighters, whose engines serve in the Indian Air Force, will be attending Aero India in Bengaluru next week. According to the statement, the company has a major footprint with 17 facilities, over 2,400 employees and key partnerships with Indian defence organizations and aerospace organizations. Safran is a helicopter engine developed by CFM International, a joint venture between Safran Aircraft Engines and Ge Aerospace, and a helicopter engine and commercial LAP engine developed by CFM International, and a helicopter engine developed by CFM International, and an engine that is beyond the Indian engine MRO. The company is a driver I added.
Published – February 7, 2025 01:01 PM IST
