<span style="color: #222222;">India and Australia have strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and emphasized the need for strengthening international cooperation to combat terrorism in a comprehensive and sustained manner. The 13th meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group on counter-terrorism was held at Canberra in Australia on Wednesday. <br />''<br />''Joint Secretary for Counter-Terrorism in the Ministry of External Affairs Mahaveer Singhvi led the Indian delegation of experts to discuss the ongoing counter-terrorism cooperation between the two countries. Both sides underlined their commitment to coordinate and collaborate on this important element of the India-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. They condemned the use of terrorist proxies for cross-border terrorism.<br />''<br />''India and Australia underlined the urgent need for all countries to take immediate, sustained, verifiable and irreversible action to ensure that no territory under their control is used for terrorist attacks and to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of such attacks. Australia reiterated its condemnation of terrorist attacks in India, including 26/11 Mumbai, Pathankot and Pulwama attacks, and reiterated its support for the people and the government of India in the global fight against terrorism.<br />''<br />''India and Australia exchanged views on various areas of cooperation in the sphere of counter-terrorism. Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to work closely together to respond to these challenges and discussed ways to deepen engagement between their respective counterpart agencies to further advance interaction, cooperation and information sharing in the sphere of counter-terrorism.<br />''<br />''The two sides also discussed counter-terrorism cooperation in multilateral fora such as the UN, and G-20, as well as with Quad partners and ways to further enhance this cooperation. </span><br />