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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Elaine Ganley

India's Modi is guest of honor at Paris Bastille Day parade as Macron rebuffs human rights critics

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France is staging a seduction campaign for visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, guest of honor at Friday's annual Bastille Day parade, with the French president calling India a “key” player “in our future.”

France is looking to further strengthen cooperation on an array of topics ranging from climate to military sales and the strategic Indo-Pacific region. But human rights, seen as an increasingly pressing subject for Modi’s India, was missing from the vast agenda.

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