India and France have agreed to further deepen the integration between the two countries' defence industrial sectors and to work together to identify opportunities for co-design, co-development and co-production.

"In a reflection of the deep mutual trust and confidence between the two countries, and drawing strength from their decades-old cooperation in advanced technologies, President Macron and Prime Minister Modi reiterated their commitment to further deepening the integration between the two countries' respective defence industrial sectors and to work together to identify opportunities for co-design, co-development, co-production with the objective of not only fulfilling the defence needs of the Indian armed forces, but also of providing a viable and reliable source of defence supplies to other friendly countries," as per India-France joint statement following French President Emmanuel Macron's State visit to India for the Republic Day celebrations.