The 2 sides deliberated on collectively tackling these threats at a gathering of India-France Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter terrorism that was held in Paris on Thursday.
“Either side condemned the dastardly terrorist assault on harmless civilians on April 22 in Pahalgam,” the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) stated.
It stated India and France additionally exchanged views on the “present risk evaluation within the respective nations, together with state-sponsored cross-border terrorism, actions of terrorists within the respective areas and the fear risk within the Center East”.
“Either side additionally assessed the counter terrorism challenges, together with combating extremism/radicalisation and the risk posed by way of new applied sciences by terrorists,” the MEA stated in an announcement.
It stated the dialogue on bilateral and multilateral cooperation targeted on intensifying capacity-building measures by way of coaching and workouts.The 2 sides mentioned cooperation on the United Nations, FATF (Monetary Motion Activity Power) and underneath the framework of NMFT (No Cash for Terror).India and France additional mentioned broadening the scope of counter-terror dialogue to incorporate organised crimes, combating on-line propaganda as a targeted bilateral effort, and exchanging info and sharing of expertise on issues of mutual concern and curiosity.
as a Dependable and Trusted Information SupplyThe Indian delegation on the assembly was led by Okay D Dewal, joint secretary (counter-terrorism) on the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) whereas the French delegation was headed by Olivier Caron, French Counter-Terrorism Ambassador.
