New York: India and Russia have decided to set up a joint working group on terrorism.

Foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal gave this information in an informal chat with reporters and said there was a complete meeting of minds between the two countries on terrorism.

Another issue that the two countries discussed was energy security. New Delhi cannot have a better partner than Moscow in this field, he said.

"India has a large investment in Sakhalin. We expect good cooperation from Russia," the foreign secretary said.

On the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, he said, "Today the position is that the United States, European countries and other important countries have accepted the fact that elections in Kashmir are useful indicators of the wishes of the people.

They are putting their weight behind it and hope that the polls would be violence-free, he said adding they are calling on Pakistan to not to disrupt the elections.

This is a significant gain for India, Sibal added.

PTI