In a joint statement, the foreign ministers strongly denounced the act of violence and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.

The foreign ministers of the countries also called on all the United Nations member states to cooperate in “bringing theperpetrators, organisers, and financiers of the reprehensible act to be brought to justice without any delay”.

A joint statement by the foreign ministers of the U.S., India, Japan and Australia condemned an April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 people, and urged that those behind it be brought to justice.