Turkey, Nov 16 (PTI/Reuters): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday joined United States President Barack Obama and other world leaders to seek urgent and united global efforts to combat terrorism as the gruesome Paris attacks, war in Syria and the fight against Islamic State overshadowed the G20 Summit.

The meeting of leaders from 20 top economies, which was to discuss inclusive economic growth and climate change, will adopt a resolution at the end of the two-day meeting on Monday, calling for better coordination and exchange of information to cut off terror funding and a comprehensive approach on “addressing the conditions conducive to terrorism”. The resolution on terror would be separate from the main summit declaration, officials said.

US President Barack Obama vowed to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State in Syria and prevent it from carrying out attacks like those in Paris while European leaders urged Russia to focus its military efforts on the radical Islamists.

Obama described the killings in Paris as an attack on the civilised world and said the United States would work with France to hunt down those responsible. The two-day summit brings Obama and fellow world leaders just 500 km (310 miles) from Syria, where a four-year conflict has transformed Islamic State into a global security threat and spawned Europe’s largest migration flows since World War II.

“We will redouble our efforts, working with other members of the coalition, to bring about a peaceful transition in Syria and to eliminate Daesh as a force that can create so much pain and suffering for people in Paris, in Ankara, and in other parts of the globe,” he added, using an alternative name for Islamic State. European Council President Donald Tusk said Russia should focus its military operations on Islamic State rather than on the Syrian opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad, urging cooperation between Washington and Moscow. Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin held an informal discussion