INDIAN Parliamentary delegations on Friday put across New Delhi’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on terrorism to top officials in Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Japan and exchanged views on furthering cooperation in counter-terrorism and combating radicalism following Operation Sindoor. “#TeamIndia sends a strong and united message on combating terrorism,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is on a three-nation tour of Europe, said in a post on X. India is sending out seven multi-party delegations to 33 global capitals to reach out to the international community on Pakistan’s designs and India’s response to terror in wake of the Pahalgam terror attack after which India launched Operation Sindoor.

 

In Moscow, the all-party delegation led by DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi met Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko to sensitise the Russian side about terror emanating from Pakistan, a month after thePahalgam attack that left 26 people dead.

 

In Japan, the delegation led by JD(U) MP Sanjay Jhaheld a “focused and lively” pressengagement held at the Indian Embassy in Tokyo where the MPs “briefed the Japanese media onIndia’s‘NewNormal’ against cross-border attacks, zero tolerance for terrorism, and all parties resolve to stand united in allmatters of national interest,” the Embassy said in a post on X. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the delegation led by Shiv SenaMPShrikant Shinde, sent a “strong message of harmony, tolerance and peaceful coexistence-thevalues shared &cherishedbyIndiaandUAE,” the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabisaid.

 

Thedelegationpaid obeisance at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, BAPS Hindu Temple and Guru Nanak Darbar Gurudwara, the Embassy said in a post on X. The all party delegation met Nikolay Mladenov, Director General of Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy and “exchanged views on furthering India-UAE cooperation in counter-terrorism and combating radicalism.” The Indian MPs in Moscow earlierhadadetailed exchange of views ataround-tablemeeting with all-party members of the Russian Federation Assembly (Parliament) led by the Duma (Lower House) International Affairs Committee chair Leonid Slutsky of Liberal-Democratic Party.

 

The delegation also met with First Deputy Chair of the Committee on International AffairsAndreyDenisovandother senators in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, said a post from the Indian Embassy in Russia. “The Russian side condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam and stated that Russia standsin solidaritywith India for elimination of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations! Russia and India have a shared position in the fight against terrorism. Russia India | Together in the fight against terrorism!” it added. The delegationinTokyo also met Yasuhiro Hanashi, Acting Chairperson of the Research Committee on Counter-terrorism of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and former Minister of Justice. “India’sunifiedanddetermined stance against terrorism in all its formswashighlighted.Both sides reiterated their zero-toleranceapproach to terrorism,” the Embassy of India in Japan said in another post on X. The delegation also held fruitfulinteractionwithMinoru Kihara, Former Defence Minister ofJapan, andShinako Tsuchiya, Director General of the International Bureau, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).