PARIS: France president Emmanuel Macron is to arrive in New Delhi.Traveling with his wife Brigitte, France's forty-year-old president is set to create the almost mandatory visit to the love-monument, the iconic Taj Mahal, during a few hours’ drives from the Indian capital on Sunday.

On Monday, he would head to the chaotic Hindu holy city of Varanasi on the banks of the river Ganges, along with the Indian premier Narendra Modi.

 Both leaders are scheduled to discussing climate change and ways to build closer diplomatic ties which are the two biggest issues between the countries in recent years. Apart from this defense and nuclear energy sales will also take center-stage during bilateral talks.

In September 2016, India finally inked a deal to buy 36 French-made Rafale fighter jets, much less than the 126 that were once discussed, but France and its manufacturer Dassault Aviation hold hopes of further sales.

Macron will also boast the quality of Airbus helicopters and Scorpene submarines in a country that buys 90 percent of its equipment from abroad, making it the world's biggest arms bargain hunter.

Problems which are holding up the long-delayed sale of six nuclear reactors will also be primly discussed.

 President Macron is also set to declare strategy to allow Indian navy ships to use French bases in the southern Indian Ocean where New Delhi remains cautious of Chinese expansion in an area that it sees as its strategic backyard.