Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar said that Operation Sindoor gave a very clear message to the world that India will take action against terrorism. Jaishankar also spoke on the joint statement of the quad countries on the Pahalgam terror attack and cross -border terrorism during a press conference in Washington on Wednesday (July 2, 2025) and said that it is important that quad countries have spoken of bringing criminals into the dock of justice.
Pakistan may have kept saying that the quad countries did not mention it while condemning the Pahalgam terror attack, but the gesture in the joint statement was towards him. Jaishankar said, ‘What is important for us in the statement issued by Quad and the statement issued by the Security Council on 25 April is that the criminals of terrorism should be held accountable. They should be brought to the dock of justice.
‘The world has to tell, if there will be terrorist attacks, India will take action’, said Jaishankar
According to the report of the news agency PTI, S.K. Jaishankar said, ‘This is important because then we have to tell the world what we did. The aim of Operation Sindoor started on May 7 is that if there are terrorist attacks, we will take action against those who carried out them, their supporters, financers and colleagues, so I think this message was given very clearly.
Quad condemns terrorism across the border
Foreign Ministers of Quad countries- Jaishankar, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Australia Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Japan Foreign Minister Takeshi Ivaya clearly condemned all types of terrorism and violent extremism including cross-border terrorism.
The Quad called for conspiring for the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, those who carried out it into the dock of justice without any delay and appealed to the UN member countries to increase cooperation in this regard.
The member countries of the quad condemned this terrorist attack on 22 April and strongly supported the action against cross -border terrorism. 26 people were killed in the Pahalgam attack.
‘Those who carried out terrorist attacks should be brought to the dock of justice’, quad said
The joint statement said, ‘We call for the criminals of this condemnable act, who execute it into the dock of justice without any delay and urge all the UN member countries to actively cooperate with all the concerned authorities in this regard as per their obligations under the relevant proposals of the International Law and United Nations Security Council.’
The press statement of the United Nations Security Council condemned the Pahalgam attack and members of the Security Council emphasized the need to hold this condemnable act of terrorism, accountable to those who executed and bring them into the dock of justice.
In response to the Pahalgam attack, India started Operation Sindoor by targeting the infrastructure of terrorists in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The responsibility of the Pahalgam attack was taken by The Resistance Front (TRF) affiliated to Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
‘We spoke globally about terrorism’, said Jaishankar
Jaishankar said that he told his counterparts at the globally as well as the nature of the challenge of terrorism that India has been facing and which he has been facing for many decades and we are determined to answer it very strongly today and we have the right to protect ourselves.
Jaishankar’s meeting with Rubio too
Jaishankar said that apart from discussion in the quad, he had a good bilateral meeting with Rubio and the two leaders discussed the events of the last six months and discussed the path ahead. He said, “During this meeting, business and investment, technology, defense, energy and mobility were discussed”. ” He said that Jaishankar also held separate bilateral talks with US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and Energy Minister Chris Wright.
In response to a question asked about a US plan to impose 500 percent duty on imports from Russian oil buying countries under a bill of US MP Lindsay Graham, Jaishankar said that the Indian embassy and officials are in touch with Graham on the issue. Jaishankar said, “… our concerns about energy security and our interests have been made aware.”