Paris:
President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday posted a video highlighting a glimpse from his current go to to India in the course of the Republic Day celebrations and pressured that France desires to have ”increasingly more investments” in India.
Praising India, he said that India goes to be on the entrance row on the planet’s transformation.
”We’ve got received all the things to say to a rustic like India, a democratic energy, a demographic, financial and a technological as effectively, which goes to be entrance row on the world’s transformation,” President Macron stated within the video posted on X.
A glance again at an distinctive journey in India. pic.twitter.com/ldldTasdOw
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) February 4, 2024
Posting the video with the caption ”A glance again at an distinctive journey in India”, Macron additional stated, ”For us, having chai tea is a behavior.”
Macron stated he felt ”extraordinarily honoured” to be part of the seventy fifth Republic Day celebrations within the nationwide capital.
”We have been extraordinarily honoured to be a part of such an necessary and distinctive day. That is in our reminiscences for ever,” he added.
Additional boasting the nice relationship between the 2 international locations, the French President said that even when the relations between the 2 international locations are good, the international locations can nonetheless do way more.
”We developed in the course of the previous few years a sequence of cooperations and partnerships in numerous sectors along with your nation. And clearly, we need to make increasingly more investments. Even when the connection is excellent, we will do way more. Every little thing’s good to date,” the video said.
Moreover, he emphasised that they need to have 30,000 college students in France coming from India by 2030.
The French President visited India on the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was the chief visitor on the seventy fifth Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
President Droupadi Murmu and PM Narendra Modi warmly greeted him as he arrived at Kartavya Path. French contingents marched alongside Indian forces in the course of the parade.
In a reaffirmation of the longstanding friendship between India and France, President Emmanuel Macron stated, ”Lengthy dwell the friendship between France and India.”
On the outset of his deal with throughout a banquet hosted by President Droupadi Murmu, Macron expressed heartfelt gratitude for the nice and cozy welcome prolonged to his delegation.
Macron shared his appreciation for the distinctive bond that transcends time and shared values.
The French President acknowledged the distinctive welcome and recalled the 5 years since his final state go to, expressing his pleasure at returning to India after the resounding success of India’s G20.
Macron recounted his go to to Jaipur, with Prime Minister Modi showcasing the symbolic moments that resonated with historic significance.
Furthermore, India and France adopted a roadmap for the defence-industrial partnership throughout French President Emmanuel Macron’s state go to for Republic Day celebrations.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron additionally reaffirmed their imaginative and prescient that the India-France Strategic Partnership might help construct prosperity and resilience of their economies, advance their international locations’ safety, and create a extra sustainable and more healthy future for the planet.
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