India and Australia accept emphasized the charge for deepening all-around cooperation to action agitation and accursed the use of “terrorist proxies” for cross-border terrorism.
Ways to added aggrandize mutual cooperation in ambidextrous with agitation ample acutely at the 14th affair of the India-Australia collective alive accumulation on counterterrorism that was captivated in Delhi on Monday.
India and Australia acerb accursed agitation in all its forms and manifestations and emphasized the charge for deepening all-embracing cooperation to action agitation in an absolute and abiding manner,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
“They additionally accursed the use of agitator proxies for cross-border terrorism,” it said.
The MEA said the two-abandon exchanged angle on the domestic, bounded and all-around agitation blackmail assessment.
“They discussed counter-terrorism challenges accompanying to the use of new and arising technologies by terrorists, abusage of the internet for agitator purposes, radicalization and alarm financing, and the antecedent amid organized abomination and terrorism, amid added issues,” it said in a statement.
It said both abandon additionally discussed cooperation in regional, all-around and multilateral fora such as the UN, FATF (Financial Action Task Force), Quad and the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).
Joint Secretary for Counterterrorism at the MEA K D Dewal and Richard Feakes, Ambassador for Counterterrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia, led the corresponding delegations at the meeting.
Separately, India and Australia additionally deliberated on means to addition cooperation in the amphibian domain.
The two abandon discussed the affair at the sixth India-Australia Amphibian Aegis Dialogue that took abode in Canberra on Tuesday.
The MEA said the two-abandon conferred on means to sustain a safe and defended amphibian ambiance accessory for across-the-board advance and all-around able-bodied being.
“They exchanged angle on assorted capacity of alternate interest, including the amphibian aegis ambiance in the Indo-Pacific region, amphibian area awareness, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) coordination, bounded and multilateral engagements and acceptable use of abyssal resources,” it said.
“This included cooperation in Search and Rescue (SAR), abuse response, dejected abridgement and Port State control,” it said in an abstracted readout.
The MEA said the two abandon additionally discussed agency and agency of added deepening their mutual cooperation in these areas. “They additionally conferred on the way advanced for accord in the amphibian anatomy colonnade of the Indo-Pacific Ocean Initiative (IPOI),” it said.
