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Rajnath Singh holds delegation level talks with visiting Russian Interior Minister
New Delhi, Sept 7 (IBNS): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting with the visiting Russian delegation headed by Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Interior of Russian Federation on Monday.
The Russian Minister was accompanied by Denis Alipov, Charge d’Affairs, Embassy of Russia and Peter Popov, Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Interior.
Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of State for Home, Secretary (Internal Security) Ashok Prasad and other senior officers of Ministry of Home Affairs participated in the meeting.
While recollecting India’s close and friendly ties with Russia, Union Home Minister noted that the friendly ties have been consolidated and strengthened and India continues to view Russia as privileged strategic partner.
Singh stated that India is looking to expand the extensive bilateral cooperation and partnership under the framework provided by the Druzba-Dosti Joint Declaration issued during the Annual Summit between Prime Minister of India and President of Russia held in 2014.
Union Home Minister mentioned the cooperation existing between the two countries in diverse areas ranging from economic and commercial cooperation, defence, culture, health, public administration, science & technology and education.
The discussion covered a wide range of issues including law enforcement activity in Russia and India, areas for joint cooperation, counter-terrorism, measures against extremism, acts of crime in the sphere of high technologies and IT, cyber security, cooperation in the field of drug control and the existing agreements between India and Russia.
On the issue of terrorism, Singh said that terrorism is continuing to pose a serious threat to the international community at large. This disturbs peace, democracy and freedom and endangers the very foundation of democratic societies. India strongly condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestation and has adopted a holistic approach that ensures ‘zero tolerance’ towards terrorism.
The Union Home Minister said that the threat of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a matter of serious concern and there is need for close cooperation and exchange of information between the two countries and monitoring the activity of ISIL particularly in the field of media to counter the extensive media propaganda by the ISIL and the Cyber Space to combat close Jihadi chat and online recruitment.
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