05 December 2002 00:00
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JOINT RUSSIAN-INDIAN WORKING GROUP ON COMBATING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
1. The Parties shall establish a Joint Russian-Indian Working Group with the aim:
- to exchange experience and results of assessments of actions of international terrorists, drug trafficking and their relationship;
- to coordinate approaches to combating international terrorism and drug trafficking;
- to exchange information on activities of the terrorist groups based in Russia and India or any other terrorist groups with transnational links;
- to suppress activities of terrorist groups, including those planning, supporting or committing terrorist acts against Russia and India;
- to institutionalize cooperation.
2. The Working Group will:
- endeavor to uncover international networks supporting terrorist activities and illegal drug trafficking;
- consider procedures for the exchange of operational intelligence information;
- suggest means for enhancing cooperation in the following areas:
a) arrest, extradition and criminal prosecution of terrorists;
b) mutual technical assistance, in particular in the form of training of police and public security officers and exchange of professional experience;
c) identification, prevention and suppression of financial sources/flows of funds to terrorist organizations;
- explore ways and means of supporting legal measures against international terrorism and drug trafficking;
- exchange experience in preventing skyjacking, rescuing hostages and protecting of very important persons;
- cooperation in preventing access of terrorist organizations, acting against any countries or from their territories, to weapons of mass destruction;
- interact with a view to track and suppress legalization of income from criminal activities;
- coordinate efforts with a view to promptly negotiate and adopt a comprehensive convention to combat international terrorism;
- cooperate with a view to track activities of terrorist organizations with transnational links;
- discuss means of coordination of efforts with Interpol, the United Nations and other multilateral fora;
- upon mutual agreement of the Parties, maintain cooperation in other areas.
3. On the part of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be the leading agency for coordinating activities of the Working Group, with the participation of representatives of appropriate Russian departments. On the part of India, the Ministry of External Affairs will be the leading agency for coordinating activities of the Working Group, with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Home Affairs and departments concerned with antiterrorist activities as well as issues relating to the prevention of drug trafficking and money laundering.
4. The Working Group will hold its meetings at least twice a year in suitable for both Parties time. The meetings will be held alternately in New Delhi and Moscow.
The Working Group will abide by strict confidentiality in its work. Any information provided by one Party to the other pursuant to cooperation under this Memorandum may not be disclosed to a third party without the consent of the Party which provided the information.
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