PARIS (AP) — India has invited French President Emmanuel Macron to be the chief visitor at the nation’s nationwide day celebrations subsequent month, in what Macron’s workplace described on Friday as a robust gesture for the 2 nations’ ties.
The go to for Republic Day on Jan. 26 will probably be Macron’s third to India as president. The occasion marks the 74th anniversary of the adoption of India’s Structure on Jan. 26, 1950, practically three years after it received independence from British colonial rule.
India’s official visitor in January 2023 was Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, for a 90-minute parade that ended with a flyby that includes 75 air power fighters, together with French-made Rafale jets, transport planes and helicopters.
Earlier French friends for the occasion have included all of Macron’s rapid predecessors as France’s president: François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac.
Macron’s workplace described the invitation as “an especially robust gesture.” He additionally visited India in 2018 and once more for a Group of 20 summit in September.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was visitor of honor this yr at France’s annual Bastille Day parade in Paris on July 14.
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