Dec. 21: Without mincing words, the joint statement issued after the talks between the visiting Russian President, Mr Dmitry Medvedev, and the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, “called upon Pakistan to expeditiously bring all the perpetrators, authors and accomplices of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice”.
In reply to a question about the existence of terrorist safe havens in the region, Mr Medvedev said no modern civilised state can hide terrorists as law abiding citizens.
“They are subject to punishment for the evils they have committed. To extradite them we need legal, bilateral frameworks, bilateral agreements between two countries. Once they are in place they should be applied between countries, including countries in this region,” he elaborated.
The talks also achieved progress on the construction of additional nuclear reactors at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu. The head of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Mr Sergei Kiriyenko, has hinted at plans to build 18 reactors across “three” sites in India.