Read here the updates from Rajnath Singh’s Russia visit

NewsBharati    27-Nov-2017
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Moscow, November 27: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who is on his three day Russia visit, met Minister for Internal Affairs of Russia on Monday. During this meet with his counterpart, both of them emphasized on the multi-dynamic bi-lateral relation which touched 70 years this year.

The Ministers underlined that cooperation in the field of security is an important aspect of this bilateral relationship further strengthen cooperation to combat terrorism, extremism, and radicalism. They agreed that terrorism must be fought unitedly and there were no good or bad terrorists. They also agreed to cooperate in combating new challenges, enhance the exchange of information, cooperate in building a database, and in training of police and investigative agencies. Both sides agreed to hold the next Joint Working Group to counter terrorism between India and Russia in 2018.

An updated and more comprehensive agreement on Cooperation on Security was signed by the two Ministers. This agreement provides a comprehensive approach for cooperation in security-related issues, including Information Technology Crimes, Counterfeiting currency, Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Trafficking in Human Beings, Economic Crimes, Crimes related to Intellectual Property, Cultural Property amongst others.

A Joint Action Plan between the Narcotics Control Bureau for the period 2018-20 was also signed by Pankaj Saran, Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation and Mr. Igor Zubov, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Interior of the Russia. Later, Rajnath Singh will meet more top officials of Russia.

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