Giving a new impetus to strategic ties, India and France have finalised negotiations for a bilateral agreement on cooperation in civil nuclear energy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Jan 25. The two sides also decided to bolster their defence cooperation and take it beyond a buyer-seller relationship, Singh said at a joint press conference with French President Nicholas Sarkozy. During the talks, Sarkozy, who arrived here on Jan 25 on a two-day visit, reaffirmed France''s support to India''s bid for a permanent seat in the expanded UN Security Council.
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