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India’s point of view on Pakistan’s state sponsored terrorism was well received at the foreign ministers QUAD meeting in Melbourne on Friday 11th February 2022.

The foreign ministers vowed to expand cooperation to keep the Indo-Pacific free from “coercion”, denounced the use of terrorist proxies for cross-border terrorism, assessed the Ukraine crisis and asserted that Afghan territory should not be used to threaten or attack any country.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterparts from the US, Australia and Japan, also held that the “ungoverned spaces” in Afghanistan pose a direct threat to the safety and security of the Indo-Pacific, and expressed grave concerns over the situation in Myanmar.

Referring to the Ukraine conflict, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a joint media briefing that Russia would face “massive consequences” if it renewed aggression towards the Eastern European nation and that Washington is following an approach of diplomacy and dialogue to resolve the issue.

The statement issued after the meeting called upon all countries to ensure that territory under their control is not used to launch terror attacks and reiterated condemnation of terrorist attacks in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai and Pathankot attacks.