UK Nationwide Safety Adviser Sir Tim Barrow is on an official go to to New Delhi on 7 July 2023 on the invitation of Shri Ajit Doval, KC, Nationwide Safety Adviser of India for the India-UK Strategic Dialogue. He’s accompanied by a delegation of senior UK authorities officers, sources mentioned.
The 2 Nationwide Safety Advisers met for restricted discussions on regional and world problems with mutual curiosity. This was adopted by the delegation stage talks the place each international locations reaffirmed their shut strategic partnership and agreed to accord most precedence to additional improve the safety linkages. The 2 had met informally this yr on March 30.
The 2 NSAS have engaged repeatedly in in depth discussions on a broad bilateral, regional and world agenda. The present go to will permit them to proceed their high-level dialogue, which is able to embody a assessment of the multi-faceted cooperation between the 2 international locations in addition to discover futuristic areas for know-how collaboration.
The 2 sides agreed to boost cooperation to deal with violent extremism and radicalism.
The Indian facet raised the difficulty of the extremist parts within the UK threatening particular person officers of the Indian Excessive Fee and urged the UK Authorities to take sturdy public motion towards these parts resembling deportation or authorized prosecution.
Each side agreed to work carefully on counter-terrorism, counter-terror financing, use of the web for terrorism functions, illicit drug trafficking and counter radicalisation.
The 2 sides agreed to deepen mutually useful collaboration in essential and rising applied sciences.
Throughout the go to, NSA Tim Barrow may even meet different dignitaries of the Authorities of India.