Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today left for home after winding up a three-day visit to this Russian city where he attended two multi-lateral summits and met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari for the first time since the Mumbai terror attacks.
On his first visit abroad after being re-elected Prime Minister, Singh gave a tough message to Pakistan asking him not to allow his country's territory to be used for terrorism against India.
"I am extremely happy to meet you, but my mandate is limited to telling you that the territory of Pakistan must not be allowed to be used for terrorism against India," Singh told Zardari in front of TV cameras as the two sat for talks.
Singh attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), where India holds the observer status, and became the first Indian Prime Minister to address the summit yesterday.
The SCO summit was attended by heads of state of member nations China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and leaders of observer nations Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Iran.
Addressing the summit, Singh said: "the spectre of terrorism, extremist ideologies and illicit drug trafficking haunt our region".
At the BRIC summit, he pitched for implementation of the decisions of the London Summit of G-20 which had identified the steps to tackle the global financial crisis.
