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India, Asean issue declaration on jointly combating terror
Bali, Oct 08: India and the powerful ten-nation Asean today issued a joint declaration on cooperation for combating international terrorism and signed a major framework agreement to comprehesively enhance their current trade turnover of 12 billion US dollars and establish a free trade area in ten years.
Bali, Oct 08: India and the powerful ten-nation
Asean today issued a joint declaration on cooperation for
combating international terrorism and signed a major framework
agreement to comprehesively enhance their current trade
turnover of 12 billion US dollars and establish a free trade
area in ten years.
Another accord declaring India's accession to the
Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) in South East Asia was
signed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and heads of
state or government of the ten Asean countries attending the
second day-long India-Asean summit here.
The first India-Asean summit was held last year in
Cambodia.
The joint declaration on terrorism initialed by
External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and Asean foreign
ministers envisages exchange of information, cooperation in
legal matters, free cooperation in enforcement matters,
institutional capacity building and training to combat the
the scourge.
Bureau Report