{"id":1245,"date":"2018-09-26T06:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T06:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2018-09-26T06:48:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T06:48:01","slug":"french-president-clarifies-i-wasnt-in-charge-when-rafale-agreement-was-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"French President clarifies: I wasn’t in-charge when Rafale agreement was reached"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi,\u00a0<\/strong>French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the Rafale deal was a “government-to-government” discussion and he was not in power when the multi-billion dollar agreement for 36 fighter jets was signed between India and France.<\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, Macron was asked if the Indian government had at any point told France or Dassault – the French aerospace major – that they had to accept Reliance as the Indian partner for the Rafale deal.<\/p>\n

India had inked an inter-governmental agreement with France in September last year for procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets at a cost of around Rs 58,000 crore, nearly one-and-a-half years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the proposal during a visit to Paris. The delivery of the jets is scheduled to begin from September, 2019.<\/p>\n

“I will be very clear. It was a government-to-government discussion and I just want to refer to what Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi very clearly said a few days ago,” Macron, who became French President in May last year, told reporters without elaborating.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have any other comment. I was not in charge at that time and I know that we have very clear rules,” he said in his first comment on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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