There cannot be "double standards" in the fight against terrorism, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval reiterated at the first International Security Forum and the 14th Meeting of High Representatives for Security Matters in Moscow.
While addressing the international security forum on Thursday, the NSA said responsible nations have to evaluate their choices and decide whether they support sponsors of terrorism or counter them with decisive action.
Doval also "highlighted the urgent need for reforms in the structures and institutions set up after the end of the Second World War in 1945 to make them effective in dealing with contemporary international security threats," the the Indian Embassy in Moscow said in statement.
"The reforms must give greater representation to and factor in the views of the Global South," it said.
Referring to the situation in West Asia, Doval was quoted as saying it was essential to ensure "the safe and uninterrupted movement of trade through international waterways including the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea".
The embassy said Doval would also hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the forum on Thursday and Friday.
"The meeting was hosted by Mr. Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation," the embassy said, adding that the forum deliberated on the "Challenges and Threats to International Security in the context of the Emergence of the Multipolar World".