"Considering recent terrorist activities against open societies in various parts of the world, Russia and India, as two large and authoritative democratic states, have all reasons to express concern about the vulnerability of democratic systems in the face of terrorist attacks," the document states.
"Terrorism exploits such strong democratic principles as the protection of human rights, the freedom of speech and transit," says the declaration.
Russia and India denounce all terrorist acts "regardless of their motivation, timing or perpetrators." Terrorism has no excuses, either religious, racial, ethnic or any others," the document emphasizes.
The sides pointed out that the fight against terrorism must be conducted on a long-term, full-scale and continuous basis. They underlined the necessity to make this fight more effective, "add more trust to the global effort in the struggle against terrorism and eliminate selective approaches and political prejudice."
The declaration praises the unanimous approval of UN Security Council Resolution 1566, initiated by Russia. The document stresses that this resolution provides for the development of relevant measures against terrorists, including sanctions and legal actions.
Russia and India emphasize the necessity of measures that preclude terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
"The proliferation of WMDs, its delivery means and other related materials, especially the risk of its use by terrorists poses a threat to the world community and global security," the document underlines.
The sides point out at the necessity of measures "that stop terrorists or their supporters from buying or creatingweapons of mass destruction, its delivery means and other related materials."
Russia and India emphasize the need to fight against this threat both on national and international levels.
Moscow and New Delhi also confirmed their determination to combine their efforts to prevent the deployment of weapons systems in space.
Russia and India called for adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Universal Anti-Terrorist Convention and the Global Convention on the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism.
