New Delhi, July 1 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday embarked on a four-day visit to France, where she will co-chair the India-France Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD), hold meetings with global business leaders, and participate in a series of high-level engagements aimed at deepening the strategic economic partnership between the two countries.

The India-France Economic and Financial Dialogue will be held in Aix-en-Provence, where Sitharaman will jointly chair the meeting with French economy minister Roland Lescure. The dialogue will focus on identifying new areas of bilateral cooperation across sectors and strengthening economic and financial ties between the two nations, said a government statement on Wednes...