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India, France reiterate commitment to work towards global security | With the strategic partnership between France and India
entering its 12th year, both nations on Monday reiterated their determination and their commitment to work for towards peace and global security. In a joint
statement, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh
said: "France and India would like to work together to make the G-20 as effective
as possible and help it find its place within an international system that will
better reflect today's world and challenges. Both leaders also reiterated the
need for an in-depth reform of the United Nations, including of its Security Council,
to make it more representative of today's world. France and India also reaffirmed
their wish to continue and expand their dialogue and concrete cooperation in multilateral
bodies, especially in UNSC during the 2011-2012 biennum, so as to address threats
such as regional crises, terrorism, climate change and proliferation of weapons
of mass destruction and their delivery systems, as well as to promote arms control
and global disarmament. The two countries also underlined the need for the adequate
development of the Afghan National Security Forces to enable Afghanistan to defend
its sovereignty and independence. The two countries welcome the holding of the
EU-India Summit on 10 December 2010 in Brussels and call for renewed efforts to
achieve the mutually beneficial conclusion of the EU-India Broad-based Trade and
Investment Agreement.
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