Sarkozy visit to India a Guest of honor on the eve of Republic day celebrations. There is a vibrant effort by the Euro"s most important state France and India"s political will to have trade agreements act as catalyst to boost the economical state of the two countries. India and France today decided to bolster their civil nuclear cooperation for which an agreement has been finalized.Sarkozy on this maiden visit terms India Future of the globe.

Visiting President in his style elaborated that France was the “best friend of India" as he sought greater all-round partnership.Sarkozy saw a new 21st century international order where India has its “rightful place" with a permanent membership of the UN Security Council and a member of expanded G-8 bloc of industralised countries.

“I do not see how we can wait and wait for the reform of the UNSC…. We have to increase the seats and India has to be a member," Hailing India"s record on non-proliferation, Sarkozy strongly favored changes in global rules to allow New Delhi to have civil nuclear cooperation with the international community.

The two sides signed five agreements, including one for construction and operation of a nuclear reactor in France. A pact for transfer of sentenced prisoners was also signed.

“France and India have decided to give a new impetus to their strategic cooperation for development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes as an expression of their strategic partnership," said a joint statement issued after the talks.

Noting that the two countries wanted to “broaden and boost" their partnership in atomic field, the statement said “to this end, France and India have finalised negotiation in regard to reaching a bilateral agreement for civil nuclear cooperation." The agreement will form the basis of wide-ranging bilateral cooperation from basic and applied research to full civil nuclear cooperation, including reactors, it said.

Signing of the pact, however, will have to await firming up of a India-IAEA safeguards agreement.
Charles Edelstennie, scion of the Dassult family, the makers of the Rafale and Mirage fighters.

“We know Indian Air Force, with which we have a decade-long close association, is facing force depletion. So we are ready to supply 40 Rafales, the world"s first omnirole fighters to India, in a short span of time", the Chairman and Chief Executive of Dassult, a multi-billion French military and civil aerospace company, told PTI.

Edelastennie said Rafale fighters could be an interim sale to India as New Delhi finalises preparations to acquire 126 Multi Role Combat Aircraft at an estimated cost of 10 billion USD.

“We estimate delays in procurements of these 126 fighters. So we are offering the Rafale fighters as interim arrangement", he said.

Government has already cleared a contract for purchase of 40 additional SU-30MKI to maintain an effective air combat strength.
After wide-ranging talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and French President Nicolas Sarkozy here, the two sides also decided to push their defence ties “beyond buyer-seller relationship" and set a bilateral trade target of 12 billion euros to be achieved by 2012.

Hailing India"s record on non-proliferation, Sarkozy strongly favoured changes in global rules to allow New Delhi to have civil nuclear cooperation with the international community.

The two sides signed five agreements, including one for construction and operation of a nuclear reactor in France. A pact for transfer of sentenced prisoners was also signed.

“France and India have decided to give a new impetus to their strategic cooperation for development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes as an expression of their strategic partnership," said a joint statement issued after the talks.

Noting that the two countries wanted to “broaden and boost" their partnership in atomic field, the statement said “to this end, France and India have finalised negotiation in regard to reaching a bilateral agreement for civil nuclear cooperation." The agreement will form the basis of wide-ranging bilateral cooperation from basic and applied research to full civil nuclear cooperation, including reactors, it said.

Agra the Taj city located Northern state of UP awaits to welcome the President of France President Nicolas Sarkozy"s brief visit to the world famous monument to love over the weekend,authorities said. Carla Bruni the 40-year-old model-turned-singer girlfriend may still arrive in India for the trip to the Taj Mahal, the one-time capital of the mighty Mughal empire, on Saturday afternoon"s “private" visit. Press Trust of India news agency too quotes as saying Bruni would visit.Media eager to catch their togetherness at Taj white marble mausoleums the seven wonder of the world built five hundred years by Moghul emperor Shahjhan in memory of his wife after her death.During the VIP visiting to the monument the common visitors visit remains suspended.

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