The dialogue with the senators followed a meeting with members of the India-France Friendship Group in the Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly) earlier on Tuesday.”This meeting was very interesting for us to note how India sees France.We have a partnership that is very strong, very old and very good for both nations.It’s promising for the future,” said Thierry Tesson, President of the group, which is planning a visit to India soon.”We are fighting against terrorism in France also. Like the president of the delegation (Prasad), I agree it (terrorism) is like a cancer that has to be fought against. We are stronger when we are together against this cancer,” he said.Earlier, the multi-party delegation, including MPs Daggubati Purandeswari, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Ghulam Ali Khatana, Dr Amar Singh, Samik Bhattacharya and M Thambidurai, and former union minister M J Akbar and former deputy national security advisor Pankaj Saran, addressed the French media to highlight the global aspect of terrorism rooted in Pakistan.”The distinction between the state of Pakistan and terrorism has now withered away.Terrorism as an instrument of state policy is a part of the military state of Pakistan,” Prasad told reporters.The European delegation, one of 33 similar all-party teams travelling across the globe to express India’s zero-tolerance stance against terror, is now scheduled for dialogues and meetings in Italy.This will be followed by visits to Denmark, the UK, Belgium and Germany.As part of India’s diplomatic outreach, all-party delegations are travelling to global capitals to reach out to the international community on Pakistan’s designs and New Delhi’s response to terror, especially in view of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.
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