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Indian Minister of Defense, Nirmala Sitharaman held wide-ranging talks with her French counterpart, Florence Parly, in Paris on October 11-12, 2018 on ways to deepen the strategic and defence cooperation between the two countries. Both sides discussed ways to deepen defence-related official as well as operational-level interactions. They agreed to expand the scope and complexity of the regular joint exercises.