India, Singapore to share intelligence in terror fight
Wednesday, May 31, 2006: 1715 Hrs
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MAY 31: Entering a new phase of cooperation, India and Singapore today agreed to share key intelligence inputs to deal with terrorism, money-laundering, organised crime and drug trade and provide assistance to each other in disaster management.
These decisions were taken during wide-ranging talks Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, who is on a three-day visit to the city-state, had with Singapore's President S R Nathan, Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong and Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar, who is the Coordinating Minister for National Security and Law.
Stressing that intelligence sharing is a key element for combating terrorism, money-laundering, trans-national organised crime and narcotics drug trade, the official said the two sides will be sharing vital inputs in a bid to tackle them.
Leading a six-member delegation of top officials, Patil discussed a range of security-related issues to enhance bonds and capacity building between various agencies and police forces of the two countries.
The official said the Home Minister's talks with the leadership here "have been held in a very cordial atmosphere and will reap benefits for the two countries. They focussed on peace and security issues as also India's role in ASEAN," a powerful grouping of South-East Asian countries.
The Singaporean leaders have stated that strict vigilance had helped avert terrorist strikes and combat drug trafficking in the city-state.
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