French Forum: India: French parliamentary delegation, Indian speaker discuss nuclear tests
New Delhi, 15th September: France supports India's policy on Kashmir and wants the issue to be solved bilaterally, French National Assembly Chairman Laurent Fabius said Tuesday [15th September]. Fabius, leading a 12-member French parliamentary delegation here, also told lower house speaker G.M.C. Balayogi during a meeting here that India and France must find ways and means to promote non-proliferation of weapons.Balayogi, in turn, told the visiting dignitary that the Pokhran...
French Forum: India: France asked to relax visa rules for professionals
Paris, 1st November: The Indo-French Forum has asked the French authorities to relax visa rules to enable Indian professionals to work in the country. "Both sides agreed that there are many difficulties for Indian professionals in getting work permits. So we discussed the possibility of issuing residence permits similar to green cards," Ramakrishna Hegde, co-chairman of the Indo-French Forum said at the end of the two-day meeting here.Hegde said that Jean Francoise...
French Forum: The lesson of war
As a citizen of both the United States and France, I would like to enlighten Mr. Bill Petersen on his puzzlement about President Jacques Chirac and the French (Forum Nov. 21). He does not understand why the French are cozying up with past mortal enemies such as the Germans and the Russians. He gave a long list of bloodied defeats suffered by the French, including Algeria and Dien Bien Phu. Mr. Petersen missed the obvious: The French actually learned a lesson from their defeats and concluded it...
French Forum: China, France to cooperate on agricultural insurance
Beijing, 25 April: China will further promote the development of the agricultural insurance sector and strengthen cooperation with countries like France which have much experience in the field, said Wu Dingfu, chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), here Friday [25 April]. Addressing a Sino-French forum on agricultural insurance, Wu said developing the agricultural insurance sector was necessary to enhance the international competitiveness of the country's...
French Forum: The Hindu:
Resentment over reception
The venue looked more like a marriage hall in Mumbai's rundown Parel or Borivili, a far cry from the receptions at the Ambassador's official residence where visiting Indian leaders make the acquaintance of their own countrymen in France. If members of the Indian community in France were hoping for some interaction with the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K.Advani, at a civic reception here on Thursday, their hopes remained unfulfilled.Key issues that Indians living here...