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New Delhi 30th of May 2007
Underlining India's 'abiding commitment' to work with the world community in preventing, combating and eliminating terrorism, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee pointedly stated Wednesday that cross-border terror in the sub-continent was continuing.
'Despite repeated assurances, the infiltration of terrorists from across India's borders continues,' Mukherjee said in an intervention on a counter-terrorism discussion at the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Hamburg.
This was the first time India was participating in the ASEM that brings together leading countries of the two continents in an annual interface.
The infrastructure to support terrorist organizations and activities has also not been fully dismantled. Ending cross-border terrorism remains for India a principal goal and challenge,' he added.
A copy of the minister's speech was made available here. This was Mukherjee's second intervention at ASEM. On Tuesday, he had spoken on Afghanistan and Iran.
Stating that 'India has lived with cross-border terrorism for over two decades', the minister added that recent terrorist acts like the blast at a mosque in Hyderabad and bomb explosions on an India-Pakistan peace train 'only reflect the painful reality that terrorism continues to pose a grave threat to India's security and communal harmony.
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