India and France have underlined the necessity to make sure that the Afghan area doesn’t develop into a supply of terrorism and take concerted motion towards all terrorist teams together with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen. known as upon.
According to the ministry, at a gathering of the India-France Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism in Paris, each side condemned all types of terrorism, together with cross-border terrorist actions, and vowed to face collectively within the combat towards the menace. Foreign Affairs (MEA).
The two international locations recalled their willingness to actively coordinate in view of the preparations for the third version of the ‘No Money for Terror’ worldwide convention to be hosted by India.
In the assembly held on Tuesday, in addition they exchanged views on the imposition of sanctions on terrorists and entities as a instrument to fight terrorism and sanctions and designations towards terrorist entities and people, the Ministry of External Affairs stated in an announcement. Shared details about priorities and processes to take ahead.
It stated the 2 sides shared their evaluation of the event of the terrorist risk of their respective areas and of their regional setting.
“They additionally underlined the necessity to make sure that the Afghan area doesn’t develop into a supply of radicalization and terrorism on the regional or world stage and that it’s by no means once more used to threaten or assault any nation or to harbor, recruit or prepare terrorists. , or for terrorist planning or financing. strikes in accordance with UNSC decision 2593,” the international ministry stated.
It added that India and France additionally exchanged views on threats posed by UN-sanctioned terrorist entities and people and on all terrorist networks together with Al-Qaeda and ISIS/Daesh in addition to Lashkar, Jaish and Hizbul. Emphasizing the necessity to take “concrete action” towards Mujahideen.
Both sides additionally pressed for guaranteeing that the perpetrators of terrorist assaults are delivered to justice systematically and expeditiously.
Held over a month marking each the 13-year anniversary of the November 2008 Mumbai assaults and the six-year anniversary of the November 2015 Paris assaults, the assembly reaffirmed the unequivocal condemnation of all types of terrorism by India and France, overseas. Ministry stated.
“Both sides stressed the need for all countries to ensure that areas under their control are used for planning terrorist attacks against another country, harboring or training terrorist fighters,” the assertion stated. can’t be carried out.”
The two sides exchanged views on numerous areas of cooperation within the area of counter-terrorism, combating illicit narcotics and arms trafficking.
The MEA stated that they’ve sought motion towards internationally designated entities and people to fight radicalization and violent extremism, counter the financing of terrorism, stop the misuse of the Internet for terrorist or violent extremist functions. expressed his need.
The two sides dedicated to work collectively to reply to these challenges and mentioned methods to deepen engagement between their counterpart businesses to advance cooperation within the area of terrorism.
The two sides mentioned counter-terrorism cooperation in multilateral fora, together with on the United Nations, the membership of India’s Security Council for the 2021-2022 biennial, and on the FATF (Financial Action Task Force).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
