By IANS,
New Delhi : On the eve of the anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday said his country would “work shoulder to shoulder with India and our international partners, to confront this common threat”.
“The attacks in Mumbai last year were an outrage. No one who watched the events unfold on television will forget the way that those responsible sought to cause the greatest fear and suffering,” Brown said in a statement released by the British High Commission.
“Their (terrorists) misguided aim was to create terror and uncertainty in the region. The government and the people of India were neither cowed nor provoked by these atrocities but stood resolute.”
“I shall reiterate to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, when I meet him at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting later this week, that the UK will work shoulder to shoulder with India and our international partners, to confront this common threat,” Brown added.
“I condemn terrorism in all its forms and wherever it strikes.”
Ten terrorists who came by boat from Pakistan sneaked into Mumbai to begin a 60-hour siege that ended only on the afternoon on Nov 28, 2008. The terrorists killed 166 people.