Hon'ble Raksha Mantri visit to France in October 2019

Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited Paris on October 07-10, 2019, for the second bilateral Ministerial-level Annual Defence Dialogue with his counter-part Ms. Florence Parly, France’s Minister for the Armed Forces. During the visit, RM also called on the French President Mr. Emmanuel Macron and interacted with heads of key French defence industry enterprises. RM also visited Bordeaux to attend the handing over ceremony of the first Rafale fighter aircraft to be acquired from France under the Inter-Governmental contract signed in September 2016. He also visited select defence industry sites in France.