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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived successful Paris and received a lukewarm invited from members of the Indian diaspora, arsenic helium underscored the value of the India-France concern for planetary progress.
The Prime Minister arrived successful Paris connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) section clip from the French commune of Evian-Les-Bains, wherever helium attended the G7 Summit, to which India was invited arsenic a impermanent country.
Paris marks the last limb of Mr. Modi's two-nation circuit to France and Slovakia.
"I arrived successful Paris conscionable a abbreviated portion ago, wherever I was warmly welcomed by the Indian diaspora. I americium arrogant of their efforts to bring India and France person together," Mr. Modi said successful a societal media post.
"The India-France concern is indispensable to the advancement of our planet," helium said.
In Paris, Mr. Modi is scheduled to be VivaTech 2026 alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and interact with the Indian community.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, VivaTech is Europe's premier exertion and innovation event, and India volition person the largest nationalist pavilion astatine this year's edition, reflecting the increasing imaginable for collaboration betwixt the Indian and European innovation ecosystems.
The Indian diaspora successful mainland France is estimated astatine astir 119,000, portion much than 350,000 radical of Indian root unrecorded successful French overseas territories.
Before leaving for Paris, Mr. Modi had described his engagements astatine the G7 Summit arsenic "productive", saying helium had the accidental to contiguous India's views and efforts connected cardinal areas of governance and policy-making.
He had besides underlined the request for person engagement with the Global South to guarantee planetary prosperity.
At an outreach league of the G7 connected Wednesday (June 17), Mr. Modi projected a model to boost connectivity and commercialized by combining the strengths of the G7 nations, India and the Global South. He besides flagged concerns implicit the semipermanent interaction of the West Asia situation connected processing countries.
On Tuesday (June 16), the Prime Minister urged satellite leaders to determination from a donor-recipient attack to partnerships based connected solidarity and equality, portion emphasising the value of spot successful planetary cooperation.
On the sidelines of the summit, Mr. Modi held bilateral meetings with respective satellite leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
India and France stock a strategical concern spanning defence, security, space, civilian atomic energy, clime enactment and emerging technologies, with some countries progressively moving unneurotic connected issues relating to the Indo-Pacific, innovation and planetary governance.
