United Nations: Describing terrorism as a "pervasive and insidious" threat to global security, India has sought a concerted action to root out its networks and deter regimes from encouraging and harbouring armed extremists.
Addressing the 192-member UN General Assembly yesterday, Indian Ambassador to the global body, Nirupam Sen, asked the world to act as one in denying terrorists, their ideologues and financiers access to arms, funds and means of transportation of their deadly goods and safe havens.
About the measures taken by New Delhi, Sen said India has adhered to existing regulatory framework governing controls over weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.
It has strengthened these obligations by enacting Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery System (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005,an "overarching and integrated legislation prohibiting unlawful activities relating to weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems," he said.
To fight terrorism concertedly, he recommended to member states early adoption of the Comprehensive Convention Against International Terrorism (CCIT) to reinvigorate multi-lateral and collective dimensions of counter-terrorism efforts.
Failure of member states to reach an agreement on the definition of the terrorism is holding up the Convention. Some had been advocating that liberation movements should be excluded from the definition.
In his address, Sen repeated the Indian position that terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, irrespective of its motivation, is a "criminal and unjustifiable" act and "no cause, no matter how just, can excuse terrorism."
He termed the menace a "pervasive and insidious" threat to global security and core values of the UN. Source : PTI
