ABU DHABI: India and the UAE today condemned the efforts, including by states, to support and sponsor terrorism against other nations or to use it as an instrument of state policy, in an apparent reference to Pakistan.
“The two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in combating terrorism both at the bilateral level and within the multilateral system,” said a joint statement issued at the end of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to the UAE.
During his visit, Prime Minister Modi held wide-ranging talks with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the two sides signed five agreements including a historic pact awarding a consortium of Indian oil companies a 10 per cent stake in an offshore oilfield here.
The two leaders agreed that extremism and terrorism cannot be defeated by use of force only, and acknowledged the need for a holistic approach, which includes disrupting the use of web and social media for promotion of extremist; preventing the use of religious centres to radicalise youth and recruit terrorist cadres, the joint statement said. (AGENCIES)
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