New Delhi: Without naming Pakistan, India on December 3 asked the international community to take "decisive" steps against all states, individuals and entities which promote terrorism and a "united approach" to eradicate this menace.

"Terrorism is indivisible and there cannot be any double standards in dealing with it," External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said in an interview to Russian agency Itar-Tass to mark the three-day state visit of President Vladimir Putin to India.

New Delhi is expected to ask Russia to have a close look at Pakistan's clandestine nuclear cooperation with North Korea and its support to cross-border terrorism during talks in New Delhi on December 4 between Putin and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

The two sides will sign a host of agreements, including on cooperation in combating terrorism and boosting economic and scientific ties. Putin and Vajpayee will sign path-breaking Delhi Declaration on further strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries besides another declaration on expanding cooperation in trade, economic, scientific and technological fields.

Sinha stressed that "the international community must unite to counter every manifestation of terrorism anywhere in the knowledge that it is only such a united approach which can eradicate this menace."

PTI