Moscow: Russia and India on Monday cemented their ties with an expanded civil nuclear deal and three military pacts as they voiced concern over escalating terrorism.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who ends a three-day visit to Moscow on Tuesday, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev echoed similar sentiments after holding bilateral talks on a range of issues.
"Our views are similar on global issues and our cooperation can extend to cooperation at international level," said Manmohan Singh.
"We will be sharing intelligence and information gathering," Singh added, after the two countries signed the nuclear deal and the defence accords as well as two memorandums of understandings, one on culture.
Medvedev expressed concern over the "grave challenge of terrorism".
The Russian leader Medvedev said "There is a common threat that India and Russia face. We should consolidate our anti-terror base. We will provide concrete help in anti-terror activities."
"The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan underlines the importance of this... Terrorism is the biggest evil of current and last century," added Medvedev.
Manmohan Singh met Dmitry Medvedev earlier in the day to ink the agreements.
The umbrella agreement for expanding civil nuclear cooperation will give New Delhi the right to reprocess spent fuel, taking the pact "far beyond the 123 agreement" inked with the US, official sources said on Sunday.
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