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After the proposed deal for 26 Rafale-Marine fighters found no mention in the joint documents issued after the Modi-Macron summit in Paris on Friday, the reference to the MoU inked for building three more Scorpene submarines in India was also dropped from a later version of the bilateral statement issued Saturday morning.
An official source claimed “some earlier negotiating text got uploaded” on the external affairs ministry’s website “for a short while” and that it was “not the agreed upon text in any way”. The approved text now on the website is the same one as published by the French government, he added.
Asked about the missing Rafale mention, foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra had said “the metrics of defence partnership are not defined by a single acquisition or a non-acquisition”.
An official source claimed “some earlier negotiating text got uploaded” on the external affairs ministry’s website “for a short while” and that it was “not the agreed upon text in any way”. The approved text now on the website is the same one as published by the French government, he added.
Asked about the missing Rafale mention, foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra had said “the metrics of defence partnership are not defined by a single acquisition or a non-acquisition”.
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