PM Modi’s Tentative Programme for His Visit to France

 


By Dr. S. Chakraborty

At the invitation of President Macron, PM Modi will visit France in the next week. He will be there from 10th to 12th February, 2025. Foreign Secretary Shri Vikram Mishri shared a tentative programme schedule of PM Modi.

PM Modi will arrive Paris in the evening of the 10th February. At that evening, he will attend a dinner that is being hosted by President Macron at the Élysée Palace in honor of visiting Heads of Government and Heads of State. The dinner is also likely to be attended by a large number of CEOs from the tech domain and a number of other distinguished invitees to the summit.

On the 11th of February, the Prime Minister will co-chair the AI Action Summit, along with President Macron. Considering the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence in all sectors of economy, polity, society and governance, this summit is highly significance. This is the third such high level summit that is being held in the very recent past. The first of these was in the UK in 2023, the second one in the Republic of Korea in 2024, and now this one in France.

After the AI summit, PM Modi and President Macron will address the India-France CEOs Forum. They will also hold discussions in both the restricted and delegation level talks format. This visit will also take the Prime Minister out of Paris. Together with President Macron, he will travel to Marseille in the evening of the 11th of February. That evening, President Macron will host a dinner in honor of PM Modi.

The following morning, on the 12th of February, the two leaders will together visit the Mazargues War Cemetery, a war cemetery maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Both leaders will pay tribute to the sacrifices made by Indian soldiers during the First World War.

The two leaders will also take this opportunity to jointly inaugurate the newest Consulate General of India in Marseille. A number of Indian nationals and people of Indian origin live and work in the south of France in a number of cities across the region in Toulouse, Nice, Marseille, Grenoble, Lyon. The consulate will bring the services closer to Indian citizens and persons of Indian origin. After that, both leaders will visit Cadarache, the site of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a high science project in which India is a partner along with a few other countries.

For detail

Transcript of Special Briefing by Foreign Secretary on Prime Minister’s overseas visit (February 07, 2025)

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