Abuja (Nigeria): Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has asked Commonwealth leaders to find a method of enforcing compliance of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution for countries which sponsored, sheltered, funded and trained terrorists.

Vajpayee, making an intervention on terrorism at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), emphasised the implementation of resolution 1373 of the UN Security Council and sought creation of an effective multilateral mechanism to detect and choke funds to terrorists and terror organisations.

The Prime Minister, who was not able to stay for the entire duration of the summit, returns home tonight (Dec 7, 2003) because of his preoccupation with Parliamentary work.

External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and Foreign Secretary Shashank would attend the entire summit, which concludes tomorrow.

Terrorism was an important theme of the summit and that was the reason the Commonwealth Committee on Terrorism had been converted into a Standing Committee on Terrorism, which could engage itself in capacity building to counter terrorism, an official spokesperson said.

India is a member of the Standing Committee.

PTI