On 14 January 2010 the nuclear cooperation agreement between India and France entered into force with the exchange of letters, representing the instruments of ratification, between the Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and the French Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont. The English version of the agreement signed on 30 September 2008 is published on India's Department of Atomic Energy site. France signed the agreement into law in December 2009.