Guyana's PM Phillips Expresses Support For India's Fight Against Cross-Border Terrorism

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Last Updated:May 26, 2025, 11:31 IST

Phillips was the 2nd Guyanese person to explicit enactment for India successful its combat against terrorism

Monday is Guyana's Independence Day and President Mohammed Ifraan Ali gave a midnight code successful Berbice, which is astir 65 kilometres from the capital, Georgetown. (Photo: ANI)

Guyana’s Prime Minister Mark Anthony Phillips expressed enactment for India’s measures to combat cross-border coercion erstwhile helium met with the Indian Parliamentary delegation headed by Shashi Tharoor successful Berbice.

Phillips connected Sunday evening (local time) received a briefing from the MPs connected Operation Sindoor and India’s zero tolerance for terrorism, the India’s High Commission posted connected X.

Phillips was the 2nd Guyanese person to explicit enactment for India successful its combat against terrorism.

Earlier successful the day, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said aft gathering the delegation, “Guyana stands unequivocally" with India. “We are against terrorism, and we judge that each those who perpetrate terroristic acts indispensable beryllium brought to justice," helium said. Following the briefing, the High Commission said that Phillips “reiterated Guyana’s enactment and knowing for India’s measures towards combating cross-border terrorism."

“The treatment covered a wide scope of issues pertaining to India-Guyana cooperation," it said.

Monday is Guyana’s Independence Day and President Mohammed Ifraan Ali gave a midnight code successful Berbice, which is astir 65 kilometres from the capital, Georgetown.

Tharoor and the delegation attended the midnight celebrations of Guyana’s 59th Independence anniversary. The High Commission said successful a statement, “The delegation volition beryllium interacting with the Guyanese enactment and cardinal interlocutors from the media, Indian assemblage and diaspora, and friends of India successful Guyana."

At these meetings, the MPs volition beryllium “underlining our beardown connection of unity and brotherhood arsenic good arsenic India’s corporate resoluteness to combat against the scourge of terrorism."

Emphasising nationalist unity crossed the governmental spectrum against terrorism, the squad is headed by Tharoor from the absorption Congress Party and includes Shambhavi of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Sarfaraz Ahmad of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, and Milind Murli Deora of the Shiv Sena, arsenic good arsenic Shashank Mani Tripathi, Bhubaneswar Kalita, and Tejasvi Surya of the BJP, and GM Harish Balayogi of the Telugu Desam Party, a National Democratic Alliance partner.

The delegation visiting Guyana is 1 of the 7 teams of MPs crisscrossing the globe to convey India’s presumption successful the aftermath of the violent onslaught successful Pahalgam by The Resistance Front, an affiliate of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba. After India’s Operation Sindoor struck the violent dens, Pakistan launched an onslaught connected India that besides deed civilian targets similar places of worship, including temples, gurdwaras, a convent, and a aesculapian facility, escalating the conflict.

After the gathering with Jagdeo, Tharoor said connected X that they had an “excellent meeting" and the vice president expressed “strong sympathy and knowing for India’s concerns successful the aftermath of caller events" — the violent massacre of 26 radical astatine Pahalgam by Pakistan-linked terrorists and India’s Operation Sindoor against coercion infrastructure based successful Pakistan and successful areas it occupies successful Kashmir. Tharoor said they besides discussed economical practice betwixt India and Guyana, a fast-developing state whose emergence is fueled by the find of lipid successful its waters.

“Our speech besides spanned a scope of topics relating to Guyana’s record-breaking 30 per cent yearly economical maturation and improvement plans pursuing the find of lipid and gas," helium said connected X.

The MPs besides met with the Indian diaspora, galore of whom had besides travel to the edifice wherever they were staying to greet them. Surya said connected X, “Members of the Indian assemblage astatine Georgetown, Guyana, welcomed our Parliamentary delegation." “We besides met with representatives of galore spiritual organisations similar the Art of Living, ISKCON and the Bramhakumaris," helium posted, adding, “They service arsenic the spiritual and taste anchor for the Indian assemblage here."

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