The 2 sides agreed to strengthen their joint efforts to counter terrorism in all its kinds and manifestations.
On the second India-Arab International Ministers assembly held right here on Saturday the 2 sides in an oblique criticism of Pakistan additionally condemned cross-border terrorism and referred to as on all States to chorus from utilizing terrorism towards different States, urging all States to work collectively to fight terrorism, dismantle terrorist infrastructures and terror financing networks wherever they exist, and produce the perpetrators of terrorist acts to justice immediately.
They expressed deep concern over the misuse by terrorist teams of recent and superior applied sciences for propaganda and disinformation, recruitment, fundraising and the switch of funds, in addition to for the planning and execution of terrorist actions. The 2 sides additional famous, with rising concern, the growing use of unmanned aerial programs (drones) in trafficking of medicine, cash, weapons, and explosives, in addition to within the conduct of refined assaults, posing a major problem to counter terrorism efforts within the area.
On this context, the International Ministers of the Arab States strongly condemned the heinous terrorist assault in Pahalgam focusing on harmless Indian vacationers, and reaffirmed their full and steadfast help for the Republic of India and Arab States in confronting terrorism in all its kinds and manifestations. Additionally they famous Iraq’s distinguished and pivotal position in combating terrorism perpetrated by “Da’esh”, in addition to by people, teams, establishments, and entities related to it, in Iraq and the area.
Each side additionally famous the efforts undertaken by the Syrian Authorities within the fields of counter-terrorism, together with its becoming a member of the Worldwide Coalition towards Daesh, in addition to the measures taken to fight the manufacturing and trafficking of narcotics, and its zero tolerance method in the direction of cross-border terrorism, thereby contributing to regional safety and stability, in accordance with the Delhi Declaration issued after their assembly.
The 2 sides welcomed the unanimous adoption by the Safety Council of the “Algeria Guiding Ideas on Stopping the Financing of Terrorism via Rising Applied sciences,” on the initiative of Algeria and pursuant to the Council’s 2022 Delhi Declaration on countering using new and rising applied sciences for terrorist functions. The 2 sides dedicated to strengthen cooperation to take decisive and concerted actions towards globally proscribed terrorists, terror entities and their proxies, sponsors, backers and financiers, together with these in UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee.
