Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has agreed to deepen strategic ties with France.
France's foreign affairs minister has agreed with his Indian counterpart to work on a program to promote "a truly multilateral international order," the French foreign ministry says.
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Jean-Yves Le Drian and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also agreed during a phone call to deepen their strategic partnership, "based on a relationship of political trust between two great sovereign nations of the Indo-Pacific," the ministry said in a statement.
France on Friday recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Australia after officials in Canberra ditched a multi-billion-dollar order for French submarines in favour of a partnership with the US and the UK in the region.
Australian Associated Press
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