France’s president Emmanuel Macron is planning to visit India next year where talks for the construction of as many as six 1,650 MW nuclear power reactors at Jaitapur in the Maharashtra region of western India will be on the agenda.

Macron is expected to visit India in “early 2023”, according to France’s minister of state for development Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, who made the announcement during a meeting with India’s minister of science and technology, Jitendra Singh.

According to a statement, Singh and Zacharopoulou talked about ways to hasten the installation of the nuclear power reactors at Jaitapur.

Singh was reported in local press reports as saying technical, financial, and civil nuclear liability issues related to the Jaitapur project will be resolved as soon as possible by both parties and “well before Macron’s scheduled visit”.