NEW DELHI: India and Australia have strongly condemned terrorism in all its types together with the usage of cross-border terrorist proxies and emphasised the necessity for strengthening world cooperation to cope with the problem in a complete method.
The 2 sides mentioned methods to fight terrorism on the thirteenth assembly of the India-Australia joint working group on counter-terrorism that came about in Canberra on Wednesday.
A joint press assertion mentioned Australia reiterated its condemnation of terrorist assaults in India, together with the 26/11 Mumbai, Pathankot and Pulwama assaults, and prolonged its assist for the individuals and the federal government of India within the world battle towards terrorism.
Within the assembly, each side underlined their dedication to coordinate and collaborate on tackling terrorism according to the India-Australia Complete Strategic Partnership.
"India and Australia strongly condemned terrorism in all its types and manifestations and emphasised the necessity for strengthening worldwide cooperation to fight terrorism in a complete and sustained method," mentioned a joint press assertion.
It mentioned each side condemned the usage of terrorist proxies for cross-border terrorism, seen as a reference to Pakistan.
"India and Australia underlined the pressing want for all international locations to take rapid, sustained, verifiable and irreversible motion to make sure that no territory beneath their management is used for terrorist assaults and to expeditiously convey to justice the perpetrators of such assaults," it mentioned.
"Australia reiterated its condemnation of terrorist assaults in India, together with 26/11 Mumbai, Pathankot and Pulwama assaults, and reiterated its assist for the individuals and the federal government of India within the world battle towards terrorism," the assertion mentioned.
The 2 sides exchanged views on varied areas of cooperation within the sphere of counter-terrorism, together with countering radicalisation and violent extremism, combating the financing of terrorism, the "proscription of terrorist people and entities as a instrument to fight terrorism".
It mentioned the 2 sides additionally mentioned counter-terrorism cooperation in multilateral fora such because the UN, G20 and FATF (Monetary Motion Process Drive) and IORA (Indian Ocean Rim Affiliation) in addition to with Quad companions.
"Australia seemed ahead to internet hosting India on the subsequent Quad Counter-Terrorism Tabletop Train in October 2022, whereas India welcomed Australia's participation within the proposed No Cash for Terror Convention in New Delhi, scheduled for later in 2022," the assertion mentioned.
In addition they deliberated on methods to stop the exploitation of the web for terrorism and agreed on data sharing and capability constructing.
"Each side reaffirmed their dedication to work intently collectively to reply to these challenges and mentioned methods to deepen engagement between their respective counterpart companies to additional advance interplay, cooperation and data sharing within the sphere of counter-terrorism," the assertion mentioned.