By NNN-PTI,
Bangalore (India) : In an apparent reference to Pakistan-based terror outfit Jamaat-ud Dawa, blamed for Mumbai attacks, India, Russia and China Tuesday pressed for “strict observance” of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council against persons and entities by the countries concerned.
Foreign Ministers of the three countries, who met here under the format of Russia-India-China (RIC), viewed with concern the situation in Afghanistan-Pakistan region and vowed to forge a closer cooperation in the fight against the global menace of terrorism.
At the two-hour-long meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov joined External Affairs S M Krishna in condemning the attack on Indian Embassy in Kabul on Oct 8 and pressed for bringing to justice perpetrators of all such assaults.
Meanwhile, in the backdrop of conciliatory efforts after the verbal spat between India and China, Foreign Ministers of the two countries met here Tuesday to discuss bilateral relations with an aim of looking at ways to address irritants like boundary question and other issues.
S M Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi met to review the entire gamut of bilateral ties, two days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had an interaction with Premier Wen Jiabao in Thailand and agreed not to allow differences to impede development of bilateral relations.
The boundary dispute and related issues, issuance of visas by China to Kashmiris on loose sheets of papers instead of passports and reports of China building a dam on Brahmaputra dam were the likely subjects to be discussed by the two Foreign Ministers.