00:00Also joining us right now is India Today's Gaurav Sawant from Mumbai.
00:04Let's quickly cut across to him.
00:06Gaurav, the two leaders have met Prime Minister Modi,
00:09very warmly welcomed Emmanuel Macron.
00:12So do tell us what's on agenda.
00:18So there is great chemistry between Prime Minister Narendra Modi
00:21and the French President Emmanuel Macron each time they've met.
00:24It's been a very warm friendship that is on display.
00:28But this is far more substantive than the optics that we see right now.
00:33You know, as Pranay was mentioning,
00:35there's not only conversation about the procurement of 114 Rafale fighter jets
00:40and Hammer missiles to go with it,
00:42but then India's main focus is that a military, industrial, technological complex
00:47can be built in India, can be nurtured in India.
00:50And then India and France together not only manufacture military aircraft
00:55and civilian aircraft and components, but also then export them together.
01:00So this is a multifaceted relationship over the next three days.
01:05There's lots of conversation.
01:06If we were to talk about specifics,
01:08small and medium modular nuclear reactors,
01:12there's talk of nuclear energy, clean energy cooperation.
01:15You know, there's a lot of movement that you notice on the road where we are
01:19and on the adjoining road because the movement also means indicates that now
01:24the cooperation is from the federal government there and here
01:29through states cooperation to startup cooperation to innovation.
01:342026 has been declared as the year of innovation.
01:37And the prime minister, when he'd gone for Bastille Day in France,
01:41the conversation had been when students at academies and universities
01:44sit together and innovate together, manufacture together,
01:48from the drawing board to the finished product,
01:51that is real technological cooperation.
01:54That's very important.
01:55And if I may, what is also significant is from the 1950s,
01:59when Tufanis were procured from, you know, France,
02:03to the time that Rafales are now coming in in additional numbers,
02:06this cooperation is only growing from strength to strength.
02:09Right, absolutely, Gaurav.
02:09Thank you, Gaurav.
02:10Thank you, Pranay, for those details.
02:13And we'll be keeping an eye on that meeting and bringing you more details.
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