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November 17, 2009 (LPAC)—Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin, during his talks with India's External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, said drug trafficking is a major source of funds for terrorists and stressed the need for crackdown on it. The Russian deputy prime minister said his country, like India, faced challenge from terrorism.

Sobyanin also noted that terrorists are inter-linked and work in a coordinated manner. He said a major source of terror funding is drug trafficking and the two leaders stressed the need to address this problem. They underlined the need for consolidated action by the international community against drug and terror in all its aspects, the sources said.

On Oct. 27, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov at joint press conference after the 9th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia, India, and China in Bangalore, had said that "among regional themes we paid special attention to the situation in Afghanistan. We are not indifferent to what is happening in that friendly country near the borders of our two states. We are all interested in continuing to be actively and concretely involved in international efforts to promote peace and stability in Afghanistan, to eliminate terrorist and narcotic threats and help the socioeconomic recovery of that country." He also pointed out that "our three countries concur on the need to intensify international efforts to combat terrorism and drug trafficking."