Eradicating breeding grounds of terrorism, RIC stands out condemning terror in all it's manifestations

News Bharati    28-Jun-2019
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Osaka, June 28: Hosting leaders for the RIC, Russia-India-China informal meeting on the sidelines of G20 summit in Japan’s Osaka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday discussed key issues including counter-terrorism and climate change.
 
The three countries, in a joint communique of the 16th Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China, strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

 
In his opening remarks, Prime Minister Modi said that the trilateral meeting in Osaka was a useful medium of discussion and coordination on major global issues. “As the world’s leading economies, the exchange of views between us, on the economic, political and security situation of the world, is important. Our trilateral meeting today is a useful medium of discussion and coordination on major global issues”, he said.
“During the meeting of our foreign ministers in China in February, views were discussed on many issues. These include cooperation on issues of counter-terrorism, international hot-spot, reformed multilateralism, climate change under RIC”, he added.
 
“Together addressing global challenges, ‘RIC’ meeting in Osaka discussed counter-terrorism, international hot-spot issues, reformed multilateralism and climate change”, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted.
 
In February, China and Russia agreed for a closer policy coordination to eradicate the breeding grounds of terrorism, in a significant gain for India in its push to isolate Pakistan internationally on the issue of terrorism post Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed by a suicide bomber of Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammad.