All-party delegation member RJD MP Prem Chand Gupta meets Russian Deputy Overseas Minister Andrey Rudenko throughout a gathering for Operation Sindoor international outreach, Moscow. Might 23, 2025. DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, SP MP Rajeev Rai, AAP MP Ashok Kumar Mittal and others additionally seen.
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Moscow on Friday (Might 23, 2025) reiterated its decisive dedication to an uncompromising joint battle with New Delhi towards all types of terrorism, as an Indian all-party parliamentary delegation held wide-ranging discussions on combating terrorism and briefed the Russian facet on Operation Sindoor.

Russian Overseas Ministry assertion, issued after Deputy Overseas Minister Andrey Rudenko met with the visiting parliamentary delegation, expressed readiness to extend shut cooperation on the difficulty at regional and international venues.

The delegation, led by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, is in Russia to sensitise the diplomatic management about terror emanating from Pakistan, a month after the Pahalgam assault that left 26 folks useless.

“A decisive dedication to an uncompromising joint battle towards all types of terrorism was confirmed. Readiness was expressed to extend shut cooperation on these points at regional and international venues, primarily within the UN, BRICS and [Shanghai Cooperation Organisation],” the Russian Overseas Ministry assertion stated. Mr. Rudenko expressed hope for a speedy de-escalation of tensions in relations between New Delhi and Islamabad by peaceable diplomatic means.

The delegation was warmly welcomed by Mr. Rudenko on the Smolenskaya Sq. high-rise constructing, constructed through the Stalinist period for the Overseas Ministry. “The members exchanged views on the prospects for growing cooperation between legislative our bodies and emphasised the significance of intensifying the work of the bilateral Inter-Parliamentary Fee,” the Overseas Ministry assertion famous.

The Indian parliamentarians additionally had “a fruitful interplay” with Mikhail Fradkov, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, who heads the Russian Institute of Strategic Research (RISS), the Indian Embassy in Russia stated in a publish on X. “They mentioned the present international state of affairs, significantly, the threats posed by terrorism,” the publish added.

The delegation had an in depth change of views at a round-table assembly with all-party members of the Russian Federation Meeting (Parliament), led by Leonid Slutsky, chairperson of the Duma (decrease home) Worldwide Affairs Committee and member of the Liberal-Democratic Occasion.

The delegation additionally met with Andrey Denisov, First Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council (higher home) Committee on Overseas Affairs, and different senators of the Russian Federation, in line with the publish from the Indian Embassy. Quoting the Russian facet, the embassy publish added: “The Russian facet condemned the terrorist assault in Pahalgam and acknowledged that Russia stands in solidarity with India for elimination of terrorism in all its varieties and manifestations! Russia and India have a shared place within the battle towards terrorism. Russia, India, collectively within the battle towards terrorism!”

Earlier, the delegation arrived in Moscow late on Thursday (Might 22, 2025) evening amid Ukrainian drone assaults. Afterward Friday, the Indian crew is scheduled to work together with high India and South Asia specialists from native think-tanks. On Saturday (Might 24, 2025), they’re scheduled to deal with a press convention and work together with the native media earlier than departing for Slovenia.

The Indian delegation can also be scheduled to go to Greece, Latvia, and Spain as a part of the Authorities of India’s diplomatic outreach post-Pahalgam, after which Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a “new regular” whereby New Delhi will take into account any act of cross-border terrorism as an act of battle towards India.

The delegation that Ms. Kanimozhi is main is one in all seven multi-party delegations visiting 33 international capitals to achieve out to the worldwide group on Pakistan’s designs and India’s response to terror. The opposite members of the delegation are Rajiv Rai of the Samajwadi Occasion (SP), Mian Altaf Ahmad of the Nationwide Convention (NC), Capt. Brijesh Chowta of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), Prem Chand Gupta of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Ashok Kumar Mittal of the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP), and Ambassadors Manjeev S. Puri and Jawed Ashraf.