Berlin: German chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time sent a strong message to Pakistan saying that Islamabad cannot use terror as a means to any end.
After a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Merkel said that Berlin would take up the terror issue with Islamabad.
"We want to do whatever we can to make it clear to Pakistan that terror cannot be a means to an end in solving a political problem. We will make it clear to Pakistan that terror is unacceptable," said Merkel, after the 11th EU-India summit, where the two sides met for the first time and issued a joint declaration on international terrorism.
Senior officials accompanying the PM, said this was the first time such a strong statement had come out from the EU.
While the German Chancellor also complimented India for its stand taken at the Cancun conference on climate change, Singh said the world must continue to build upon the progress that has been made at the conference.
"India will play its part in arriving at a pragmatic and balanced solution within the framework of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change," said Singh.
Both India and Germany are set to take over as non-permanent member of UNSC next month and the two leaders said that they would work together within G4 to advance UN reforms and also to strengthen and advance their permanent membership claim.