French Forum: India: French parliamentary delegation, Indian speaker discuss nuclear tests
New Delhi, 15th September: France supports India's policy on Kashmir and wants the issue to be solved bilaterally, French National Assembly Chairman Laurent Fabius said Tuesday [15th September]. Fabius, leading a 12-member French parliamentary delegation here, also told lower house speaker G.M.C. Balayogi during a meeting here that India and France must find ways and means to promote non-proliferation of weapons.Balayogi, in turn, told the visiting dignitary that the Pokhran...
French Forum: Unrest brings French leaders under fire,
More than 1,000 cars were burned Saturday as violence spread around the country.
As urban violence spread Sunday from the shores of the Mediterranean to the German border and onto the streets of central Paris, the French government came under increasing fire for its dithering response to the mounting wave of unrest.Government leaders have held repeated meetings amongst themselves and with neighborhood representatives, and more than 2,300 riot police are patrolling the uneasy Paris suburbs to deal with youths burning cars and buildings. But officials have offered no...
French Forum: India: France asked to relax visa rules for professionals
Paris, 1st November: The Indo-French Forum has asked the French authorities to relax visa rules to enable Indian professionals to work in the country. "Both sides agreed that there are many difficulties for Indian professionals in getting work permits. So we discussed the possibility of issuing residence permits similar to green cards," Ramakrishna Hegde, co-chairman of the Indo-French Forum said at the end of the two-day meeting here.Hegde said that Jean Francoise...
Sino-French forum on modern service trade development to be held in Tianjin
A Sino-French forum on the development of modern service trade is scheduled to be held in Tianjin, the largest port city in north China, from May 30 to June 2.It constitutes part of the public activities of the on-going French Cultural Year in China, which began in October last year. Before the French Culture Year in China, the Chinese Culture Year in France was held from October 2003 to July 2004.The forum will be attended by a score of French representatives, including French...
