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WORLD NEWS | Visiting French defense minister lays wreath at National War Memorial

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New Delhi [India]Nov 28 (ANI): French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Le Cornou began his visit in Delhi by laying a wreath at the National War Memorial on Monday.

Emmanuel Lenain, French envoy to India, tweeted: “As he begins his visit to #Delhi, French Armed Forces Minister @SebLecornu lays a wreath at #NationalWarMemorial and pays tribute to India’s brave soldiers.”

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During his visit to India, Rajnath Singh will co-chair the 4th annual India-France Defense Dialogue with the Minister of Armed Forces of the French Republic.

Lecornu will today inspect the guard of honor of the three services in the presence of his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh.

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The French minister will also meet Foreign Minister Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, according to a Defense Ministry statement. This is Mr Sebastien Le Cornou’s first visit to India as Minister of the French Armed Forces.

On Sunday, he visited the headquarters of the Southern Naval Command in Cochin and toured INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier.

“In #Kochi, the Frenchman @SebLecornu visited #IACVikrant. He praised India for joining the club of countries capable of building aircraft carriers and emphasized the central role of French-Indian naval cooperation in France’s #IndoPacific strategy,” Special Envoy Lenin tweeted road. Sunday.

According to the Ministry of Defense, India and France have a close and friendly relationship. In 1998, the two countries established a strategic partnership, marking the convergence of views on a range of international issues in addition to the close and growing bilateral relationship.

India and France are defense and armament partners, contributing to India’s strategic autonomy policy in the defense sector through numerous industrial collaborations. (Arnie)

(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from a Syndicated News feed, the content body may not have been modified or edited by LatestLY staff)



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