The Indian Prime Minister must be received at the Élysée at 7:00 p.m. for a bilateral meeting followed by a working dinner, said the presidency, specifying that this was his third visit to France since 2017, while Emmanuel Macron traveled to India in March 2018.
France wants to "help the Indians to diversify their supplies" while Russia provides it with a large part of its arms and energy needs.
It is "not to put the Indians in an impasse, but to offer them solutions", added the presidency.
On Monday in Berlin, the first leg of his European tour which then took him to Copenhagen for an India-Nordic summit, Narendra Modi declared that dialogue was "the only way to resolve the conflict" because "no party can emerge victorious".
India has refrained from openly condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and from joining in the votes to that effect at the UN.
During their interview, Mr.
Macron and Modi, who maintain "an extremely warm relationship", will seek to "deepen the Franco-Indian strategic partnership, in particular in the Indo-Pacific space", according to the Elysee.
France has "a relationship of trust with India", a country made even more important since the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia concluded the Aukus security pact in 2021, which deprived France of a mega submarine contract with Canberra.
New Delhi acquired 36 Rafale aircraft in 2016 and six Scorpene submarines, while the two countries are cooperating in civilian nuclear energy, with EDF offering to build six EPRs at the Jaitapur site.
"We have redoubled our efforts to try to conclude this project as soon as possible," said the Elysée.
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