New Delhi: Pressing the international community to find accepted ways to deal with 'failed states', External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on October 18 warned that if foes were allowed to masquerade as friends, the forces of global terrorism would never yield.

Without naming Pakistan, which has come under the scanner following US declaring Karachi-based Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim a global terrorist, Sinha said non-democratic regimes fostering values of extremism, fundamentalism and "child-terrorism" were the "biggest roadblocks" to attaining a new world order.

"Who is friend and foe in this battle against terrorism is a critical question to answer today. If foes were allowed to masquerade as friends, the forces of global terrorism will never yield," he said while delivering the Cariappa Memorial lecture on 'India and the Emerging World Order'.

Emphasising the need for sweeping and comprehensive reform of the international system as represented by the United Nations, he said reconfiguration of the Security Council has to reflect not just changed realities, but also on how to manage the collective security challenges of the future.

He said non-proliferation itself must discard outmoded concepts and redirect efforts on sources of true proliferation concern. "Its success as a collective effort would obviate need for regime change to ensure non-proliferation," he said.

PTI