France’s defense minister and his Indian counterpart pledged in New Delhi on Wednesday to quickly wrap up negotiations over the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets, agreeing to set up teams to nail down the deal.

The meeting between Jean-Yves Le Drian and Manohar Parrikar came talks in New Delhi some four weeks after the announcement of an outline purchase agreement which fell a long way short of previous proposals for India to buy 126 of the jets made by French firm Dassault.

“The two defense ministers discussed modalities in order to reach an early conclusion of an Inter-Governmental Agreement on the subject,” according to a joint statement issued after the talks in New Delhi.

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