Mumbai:
French President Nicolas Sarkozy today paid tribute to the 26/11 martyrs at the Police Memorial dedicated to security men killed during the November 2008 attacks here.
Accompanied by wife Carla Bruni and other French officials, the President laid a wreath in memory of those security personnel who died fighting terrorists in the Mumbai siege.
Sarkozy also observed one-minute silence remembering the martyrs.
166 people were killed by ten terrorists who stormed South Mumbai late on November 26, 2008, targeting a pub, two luxury hotels, country's oldest and biggest railway terminus (CST), a Jewish centre and a hospital, among others.
DGP Sivanandan, Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjeev Dayal were among the top police officials present on the occasion.
Sarkozy isscheduled to fly back to France after the one-hour meeting withbusiness leaders, though it was not clear if there will be any definiteagreements signed during the meet.
PAK SHOULD BE RESOLUTE IN FIGHTING TERRORISM: SARKOZYSeeking greater global cooperation to fight terror, French President Nicolas Sarkozy today asked Pakistan to be resolute in combating the menace.
"I count on Pakistan authorities to show that they are resolute in combating terrorism," Sarkozy said at a commemorative function at Trident-Oberoi Hotel, one of the sites of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Comparing the Mumbai terror strikes to 9/11 attacks in the US, he said, "We shall stand by India so that justice is delivered".
Calling for international cooperation to check terror, Sarkozy said terrorism should be outlawed universally. "We should have true international cooperation to combat terrorism," he said.