New Delhi: Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian had a meeting on phone in which both the leaders decided to build their ties on ‘political trust’.
India and France have agreed to work on a common programme of “concrete actions” to jointly defend a multilateral international order.
After a phone conversation between Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign ministry said the two ministers also decided to deepen their strategic partnership based on a relationship of “political trust” between the two “great sovereign nations” of the Indo-Pacific.
“Discussed recent developments in the Indo-Pacific and Afghanistan with my friend FM @JY_LeDria. Looking forward to our New York meeting,” Jaishankar tweeted.
The conversation between the two foreign ministers came a day after France recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in protest against a trilateral security alliance among the US and the UK and Australia.