Hailing India-UK ties as "partnership among equals", British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pitched for intensified bilateral cooperation in the fight against terrorism with particular focus on closer security coordination at airports and seaports.
Arriving in Delhi on a two-day visit to "build stronger and strengthening relationship", Brown underscored the need for stronger economic ties, closer coordination on global issues like climate change and reform of international institutions besides cooperation in education and scientific fields.
Brown and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold talks on Monday on a wide range of issues, covering bilateral, regional and global subjects.
"I expect cooperation against terrorism is intensified in the years to come and I will talk these very issues when I meet Dr Singh," he told reporters here soon after his arrival on a maiden visit as British prime minister.
He referred to the arrest of 14 people, including two Indians, in Spain on Saturday in connection with an alleged terror plot and said the development raises "questions on how we can cooperate internationally" in the fight against terrorism.
"What I would like to see is greater contact between our two countries in winning the battle of hearts and minds, isolating extremist ideologues who try to poison the minds of young people and the views they have," Brown said after an interaction with a women's group.
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