Prime Minister Modi concluded his three nation European tour with a brief stop in Paris to meet the French President Emmanuel Macron on 4 May 2022.
The Prime Minister started his three nation European tour with a visit to Germany,
The Prime Minister started his three nation European tour with a visit to Germany,
PM concludes his three nation Europe tour after meeting French President Macron
Prime Minister Modi concluded his three nation European tour with a brief stop in Paris to meet the French President Emmanuel Macron on 4 May 2022.
- The Prime Minister started his three nation European tour with a visit to Germany, then he went to Denmark where he also participated in the 2nd India-Nordic Summit meeting and finally he made a brief stop in Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron.
- Prime Minister Modi and the French President Macron held discussions on the entire range of bilateral issues, including cooperation in defence, space, and blue economy, civil nuclear and people-to-people ties.
- Both the leaders issued a joint statement after the meeting in which they expressed concern at the conflict in Ukraine, condemned the civilian death in the region and called for immediate cessation of hostilities.
- However once again India did not condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine which France did.
- Concerned at the risk of food crisis in the world both the countries expressed their commitment to addressing the risk of an aggravated food crisis, "including through initiatives such as the Food and Agriculture Resilience Mission (FARM), which aims at ensuring well-functioning markets, solidarity, and long-term resilience."
- Ukraine was the leading supplier of wheat to the world and due to the war the supply from Ukraine has stopped leading to fear of food shortage in many parts of the world.
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