New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- France and India can deepen bilateral and multilateral partnerships to provide stability and predictability to the world order in unpredictable times when the "instrumentalisation of tariffs" is becoming counterproductive, a top French diplomat said.

Anne-Marie Descotes, secretary general of France's foreign ministry who travelled to India last week for political consultations, also spoke about cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, critical technology, civil nuclear energy and counterterrorism in an interview with Rezaul H Laskar.

At a time of uncertainty and turbulence on the geo-economic front because of the policies of the US administration, how can India and France jointly strengthen the world order and free commerce...