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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with the President of France Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rome, Italy, on October 30, 2021. The two leaders expressed satisfaction at the state of the wide-ranging India-France Strategic Partnership.
Prime Minister Modi also welcomed the European Union’s Indo-Pacific Strategy released in September 2021, and thanked the French President for France’s leadership role in the same. The two leaders also reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate in the Indo-Pacific and to find new and innovative ways to contribute towards a free, open, and rules-based order in the region, according to a PIB release.
The two leaders discussed the forthcoming COP26 and the need to focus on issues of climate finance. Prime Minister Modi also invited President Macron to visit India at the earliest opportunity.