South Asia figured as a low priority area in French foreign policy formulations in the last fifty years. This was in common with the policy attitudes of the rest of the Western world. French interest was focused in terms of arms supplies contracts to both India and Pakistan. In the economic field, other than telecommunications and electronics, French firms did not exhibit much interest or find the investment climate in India attractive. As opposed to South Asia, France did focus politically, strategically and economically in the contiguous regions of the Middle East and South East Asia. However, the trend in the last two years indicates big changes in French policy in South Asia.
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