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Moscow: Expressing its full support to the Indian government's war on terrorism, Russia has strongly condemned the terror attacks against pilgrims and an Indian Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Moscow has received with anger and pain reports of the armed attacks made on July 21 and 22 in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Hindu pilgrims and the disposition of a unit of the Indian Army, killing more than 10 and wounding over 40 people."

"We strongly condemn these terrorist acts and regard them as challenging provocations of the international terrorism, which is seeking to destabilise the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and in the region as a whole and to scuttle the incipient advance of India and Pakistan towards a normalisation of bilateral relations," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said in his statement on July 22.

"We express support to the Government of India in its determined struggle against the forces staking on extremist methods and we are confident that only consistent and uncompromising counter-action against international terrorism on the part of all members of the world community can eradicate this global evil," the Russian statement said.

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