Moscow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India has succeeded in convincing the world that there was a need to unite against terrorism and the menace can be easily fought if all powers having faith in humanity come together.

Addressing the Friends of India event at the Expo Centre here on Thursday, Modi termed his visit to Russia as "very successful and fruitful". Modi said Russia had always stood as "power" beside India and this was a relationship of friendship. "If one country stood by India through good times and bad then it is Russia," he said.