TIL Desk/National/Paris/ India and France were exploring possibilities for co-development and co-production of key military platforms for export to friendly countries and stepping up cooperation in space-based maritime awareness, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday as he held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.
The two leaders held tete-a-tete and delegation-level talks in the Elysee Palace, the official residence of the President of the French Republic, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement.
They held extensive discussions on a wide range of areas of bilateral cooperation including defence and security, civil nuclear, science and technology, energy, trade and investment, space, climate action and people-to-people ties, it said.
