French President Emmanuel Macron and First Girl Brigitte Macron arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday for a three-day India go to until February 19.Macron is scheduled to satisfy PM Modi Tuesday afternoon, maintain bilateral talks, and take part within the AI Impression Summit.
The French chief and his delegation had been obtained on the airport by Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Governor Acharya Devvrat and deputy CMs Eknath Shinde and Sunetra Pawar.Fadnavis posted on X: “Bienvenue à Mumbai! A really heat welcome to the President of France, H.E. Emmanuel Macron and First Girl Brigitte Macron as they arrive in Mumbai! Maharashtra welcomes you! Wishing Hon President Macron and your entire French delegation a pleasing keep and a profitable go to.”Earlier than departure, Macron wrote on X: “En path to India! Three days from Mumbai to New Delhi to take our strategic partnership even additional. On board with me: enterprise leaders and the financial, industrial, cultural and digital gamers who give actual, tangible life to the ties between India and France. Collectively, we are going to go even additional in our cooperation. See you tomorrow, my pricey good friend @NarendraModi!”That is Macron’s fourth go to to India and his first to Mumbai, reflecting sustained momentum within the India-France strategic partnership.On Tuesday afternoon, PM Modi and Emmanuel Macron will maintain bilateral talks at Lok Bhavan to assessment cooperation throughout defence, house, nuclear vitality, local weather, schooling and rising applied sciences beneath the Horizon 2047 roadmap, with almost a dozen agreements anticipated in defence, commerce, skilling, well being and provide chains.The leaders will collectively inaugurate the India-France Yr of Innovation 2026, an initiative introduced throughout Macron’s earlier engagements with PM Modi, together with conferences in Paris in 2025 and his earlier visits for the 2023 G20 Summit and the 2024 Republic Day celebrations. Later within the night, they may attend the India-France Yr of Innovation and Cultural Commemoration occasion on the Gateway of India and work together with enterprise leaders, start-ups, researchers and innovators from each nations.The leaders can even alternate views on regional and international points together with the Indo-Pacific, the Russia-Ukraine warfare and Gaza, alongside cooperation in air and maritime domains beneath the Defence Industrial Roadmap agreed in 2024.The go to comes amid plans to deepen cooperation in synthetic intelligence and rising applied sciences. Macron will journey to New Delhi after the Mumbai engagements to attend the India AI Impression Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam from February 16 to twenty, the primary international AI summit hosted within the World South. The summit is structured round three pillars — Folks, Planet and Progress — and follows PM Modi and Macron’s co-chairing of the AI Motion Summit in Paris in February 2025.India and France are additionally set to advance defence cooperation in the course of the go to, together with discussions linked to India’s plan to obtain 114 Rafale fighter jets from France beneath a government-to-government framework and the sixth Annual Defence Dialogue in Bengaluru anticipated to resume their defence cooperation settlement for an additional 10 years.Each leaders are anticipated to assessment progress on the India-France Roadmap on AI, launched throughout PM Modi’s go to to France.
