India's all-party delegations secure support of Japan, UAE for fight against terrorism

New Delhi: Japan and the United Arab Emirates expressed solidarity with New Delhi in the fight against terrorism, as two all-party delegations from India visited Tokyo and Abu Dhabi on Thursday and stressed the need to resolutely combat the menace in all its forms and manifestations.

 “India and the UAE will tackle terrorism together. The UAE will always stand by India,” Sheikh Nahyan Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Co-Existence in the Emirati Government, told the all-party delegation New Delhi sent to Abu Dhabi to brief about Pakistan’s support to cross-border terrorism targeting India.

Led by Shrikant Eknath Shinde, a Shiv Sena member in the Lok Sabha, the all-party delegation New Delhi sent to Abu Dhabi also had a meeting with Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, chairman of the Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federal National Council of the UAE and other senior parliamentarians of the emirate.

Shinde and other members of the delegation underscored the precise, measured, and non-escalatory nature of ‘Operation Sindoor’, which India launched targeting the terrorist camps in Pakistan and in the areas under illegal occupation of Pakistan on May 7 in response to the “barbaric terrorist attack on the tourists in Kashmir on April 22”.

“India-UAE relationship is beyond trade and culture and encompasses security and strategic issues. Terrorism is against the whole of humanity, and the international community must act now,” Nuaimi told the delegation from India, according to a press release issued by New Delhi’s mission in Abu Dhabi.

The delegation to Tokyo was led by Sanjay Kumar Jha, a Lok Sabha member of the Janata Dal (United), who conveyed to Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya that the April 22 terrorist attack in J&K was a nefarious attempt to disturb development and peace in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in India.

He stressed that India had a policy of zero tolerance for terrorism, and that it would not differentiate between the terrorists and the individuals and entities supporting the terrorists while responding to such attacks.

He requested Japan’s support in India’s fight against terrorism and, in this context, called for giving effect to the UN Security Council’s press statement of April 25, which underlined the need to hold perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of the carnage in J&K.

Iwaya reaffirmed Tokyo’s support for New Delhi’s fight against terrorism and expressed appreciation for the restraint shown by India. He called for punishing the perpetrators of terrorist attacks, according to a press release issued by New Delhi’s mission in Abu Dhabi.