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India, Thailand discuss treaty on extradition

Bangkok, January 31
Expressing deep concern over global terrorism, India and Thailand today declared that the ongoing cooperation between them on security issues needed to be institutionalised and given legal sustenance by finalising treaties on extradition and other issues. The two countries also decided to set up a committee to share information about terrorists and agreed to join hands in economic and security matters.

Beginning his two-day visit, Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani met Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra and other ministers stressing that terrorism today was not a problem of one country and emphasised that strategies had to be evolved to deal with the menace urgently. PTI