India, France Plan To Export Defence Items To ‘Friendly Countries’

In a long-term plan, New Delhi and Paris have decided to make India a manufacturing base for defence products and an exporting hub to enhance security partnership with other like-minded countries.

French President Emmanuel Macron with PM Modi during the Republic Day parade.

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New Delhi: India and France have decided to take their defence and security ties to the next level by planning to manufacture and export defence items to “friendly countries”. The decision comes even as New Delhi and Paris plan to work towards “securitization of strategic sea lanes of communication”, according to the joint statement issued after bilateral meetings between French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Following a one-on-one meeting