List of Outcomes: Visit of the Prime Minister to France

📌 Summary:

• PIB released the list of outcomes from PM Modi's visit to France — 13 MoUs/agreements/announcements across technology, trade and strategic-space domains
• Technology, Innovation, Research & Education: India-France Innovation Roadmap 2030; a Joint India-France AI Working Group on AI governance; MoU for a National Centre of Excellence for Skilling in Aeronautics at NSTI, Kanpur; expanded use of UPI in France; incubation of 10 more Indian startups at Station F; DST–INRIA Centre of Digital Sciences; an ICCR India Chair on "AI, Innovation and Culture" at Universite Paris-Saclay; ICMR–Health Data Hub of France Letter of Intent
• Trade, Investment & Supply chains: High-level Mechanism to double bilateral trade in five years; an Economic Security Dialogue
• Strategic & Space: Declaration of Intent on railway and high-speed rail development; a General Security Agreement on exchange and protection of classified information; an ISRO–CNES Letter of Intent on microgravity research and human space exploration

🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS2 IR — the India-France strategic partnership translated into concrete deliverables across AI, space, trade and security.

📝 Prelims Facts:

• India-France Innovation Roadmap 2030 adopted
• UPI to be usable in France; 10 Indian startups to be incubated at Station F (Paris)
• ISRO–CNES cooperation on microgravity and human space exploration (CNES is France's space agency)
• General Security Agreement signed on classified-information protection

🔑 Key Term: General Security Agreement — a framework for the exchange and protection of classified military/strategic information between two states.