United Nations: Asserting that there can be no justification for terrorism on any ground, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha has asked the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to "unequivocally" declare that killing of innocent people is an "evil to be condemned by all".

Warning that terrorism has spread across the world and terrorists have reached new targets, Sinha said recent attacks in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and other places show that no region and followers of no religion are immune to it.

"This reinforces the view that there is no connection between terrorism and any religion and there can be no justification (for it) based on political, territorial or ideological grounds," he told the Ministerial-level meeting of Co-ordinating Bureau of NAM on September 26.

Referring to Iraq, Sinha said the "unfolding crisis" shows that a collective approach through multinational institutions is preferable to "unilateral impulses".

"As members of NAM, we must strive now to see that full sovereignty is restored to Iraqis as early as possible and that a credible, viable, and widely accepted political roadmap is drawn and quickly implemented," he said and called for a "central and critical" role for the United Nations in the process.

Talking about the crisis in the Middle East, Sinha called for putting an end to the "spiralling cycle of violence, to violent or precipitate actions" which, he said, can only complicate the search for peace.

PTI