Fight against terrorism should include Kashmir: Germany

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, OCT. 29. India and Germany today recognised that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir could not be left out in the international fight against terrorism and stressed the need for vigorous global action to root out the menace.

The visiting Interior Minister of Germany, Mr. Otto Schilly, who had a 90-minute meeting with the Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani, said that his country was ready to extend cooperation in the battle against terrorism and to fight it out in all its dimensions.

Talking to reporters after his meeting with Mr. Advani, the German Interior Minister said that Berlin condemned the bomb blast outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly building on October 1 as also the September 11 strikes in the U.S. ``It is our common view that terrorist attacks in all its variety have to be condemned.''

Asked about Germany's stand on cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Schilly said: ``We are against all sorts of terrorist attacks wherever they take place.''

A joint statement issued by the two Ministers said: ``Both the countries recognise that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir cannot be left out in the international fight against terrorism.''

The terror was not just directed at the U.S. but at the shared values and convictions of all the freedom loving people all over the world. ``With these cowardly attacks, we have experienced terrorism in a new form which is characterised by a high degree of brutality, cold bloodedness and fanaticism. This new form of terrorism has an international network of logistic links and operative structures at its disposal.

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