India, Sept. 29 -- France and India can deepen their bilateral and multilateral partnerships to provide stability and predictability to the world order in unpredictable times when the "instrumentalisation of tariffs" is becoming counterproductive, Anne-Marie Descotes, secretary general of France's foreign ministry, has said,

Descotes, who travelled to India last week for political consultations, said in an interview with HT that advancing civil nuclear cooperation was a central purpose of her visit to New Delhi. France, she said, is focused on developing an Indian supply chain to construct and operate an EPR (European pressurised reactor) nuclear plant.

Operational cooperation for an open and inclusive Indo-Pacific is growing, and Franc...