Dialogue Mechanism b/w India and France
✓India and France have a range of regular institutional dialogues:
✓India-France Strategic Dialogue takes place between NSAs from both sides.
✓Annual Foreign Office Consultations
✓The bilateral dialogue on Maritime Cooperation
✓Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism
✓Track 1.5 Dialogue (led by Joint Secretary (PP&R), MEA) with the participation of the Observer Research Foundation from our side and the Strategy and Policy Planning
Division of the French MFA called CAPS and the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI as the French acronym stands) are the other active mechanisms.
