India & Roland Lescure

India: India, represented by its Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is actively seeking to strengthen its strategic partnership and economic cooperation with France, aiming to attract investment and promote its growth prospects.

Roland Lescure: Roland Lescure, as France's Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Energy Sovereignty, is co-chairing the India-France Economic and Financial Dialogue with Nirmala Sitharaman, playing a key role in bilateral economic discussions.

India: India, as the world's third-largest oil importer, is highly exposed to the Iran war's economic fallout, facing mounting costs, supply disruptions for oil and fertilizer, and pressure on its economic growth and government finances.

Roland Lescure: Roland Lescure, French Finance Minister, described global economic imbalances and urged the IMF and World Bank to help countries vulnerable to the Middle East conflict's fallout.

Roland Lescure: Roland Lescure, the French Finance Minister, stressed that Russia should not benefit from events in Iran and that Ukraine should not be collateral damage.