India and the Philippines unequivocally and strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including cross- border terrorism. During the 2nd meeting of the India-Philippines Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism in Manila, both the sides condemned the heinous Pahalgam terrorist attack and the terror incident on 10th November 2025 near the Red Fort, New Delhi. The Philippines side reiterated its solidarity and support with India in the fight against terrorism. The two sides discussed emerging regional and global terrorism landscape and exchanged views on a wide range of areas of cooperation in counter terrorism, law enforcement, judicial cooperation and capacity building. Recognizing the need for enhancing cooperation for effectively countering the current and emerging challenges to counter terrorism, the two sides underlined strengthening cooperation in timely information sharing and concerted actions to counter the use of new and emerging technology for terrorist purposes and terror financing. They further discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in countering radicalization and violent extremism conducive to terrorism. Both sides emphasized the need for strengthening international cooperation to combat terrorism in a comprehensive and sustained manner and re-affirmed their commitment to strengthen cooperation in the multilateral fora, including the UN, FATF, APG and ARF.

The two-day meeting, which concluded today, was co-chaired by Joint Secretary (Counter Terrorism) in the Ministry of External Affairs Dr. Vinod Bahade and Assistant Secretary of the Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines Marshall Louis M. Alferez. . The next meeting of the Joint Working Group will be held in India.