On board Prime Minister's special aircraft: The new French President Francois Hollande has pledged to continue France's strategic partnership with India with same vigour as his predecessors Jacques Chirac and Nikolas Sarkozy who belonged to rival parties.
Mr Hollande expressed this sentiment during his first meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the G20 summit at Los Cabos in Mexico after recently winning the presidential elections defeating Mr Sarkozy. Mr Singh also congratulated Mr Hollande on winning the elections.
Official sources said on Wednesday that the two leaders discussed Indo-French nuclear ties and referred to the progress in the cooperation in building the world's largest nuclear plant at Jaitapur (6 x 1650 mw) in Maharashtra.
Nuclear issues also figured in Prime Minister Singh's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two bilateral meetings took place on Tuesday.
The two leaders discussed the Indo-Russian nuclear power project at Kudankulam.
Mr Putin was told by Mr Singh that the first two units (1000 mw each) of the project are on track and that the discussions are underway for the third and fourth units for which the Russian side has to come back with further details.
Mr Putin and Mr Singh shared the view that the two countries needed to work together more intensely to augment their traditional defence cooperation.
It was felt that India and Russia will have to work out a long-term arrangement in areas like defence cooperation to avoid situations of repeated signing of Memorandums of Understanding. This will ensure there are no delays in projects like in key areas of defence.
Mr Hollande expressed this sentiment during his first meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the G20 summit at Los Cabos in Mexico after recently winning the presidential elections defeating Mr Sarkozy. Mr Singh also congratulated Mr Hollande on winning the elections.
Official sources said on Wednesday that the two leaders discussed Indo-French nuclear ties and referred to the progress in the cooperation in building the world's largest nuclear plant at Jaitapur (6 x 1650 mw) in Maharashtra.
The two leaders discussed the Indo-Russian nuclear power project at Kudankulam.
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Mr Putin and Mr Singh shared the view that the two countries needed to work together more intensely to augment their traditional defence cooperation.
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