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India-led UN body seeks adoption of ‘zero tolerance' to terrorism
An India-chaired Counter Terrorism Committee of the UN Security Council has come out with a document asking member nations to ensure “zero-tolerance” towards terrorism by denying safe haven to terrorists and bring to justice perpetrators of terror acts.
The document calls on member states to take urgent action to prevent and combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
It was released at a special meeting here on Thursday commemorating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Counter-Terrorism Committee.
The meeting also marked 10 years of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001), adopted in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Addressing the meeting, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said a decade after 9/11, terrorism still remains a “potent threat”, with thousands losing their lives and repeated attacks destabilising regional harmony.
India’s Permanent Representaitve to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri, who chairs the counter-terrorism committee, said the Security Council resolution “brought increasing solidarity and intensified dialogue among states concerning the threat posed by international terrorism and the means to confront it effectively.”
Puri later told reporters that from only two states that were signatories to all the 12 UN conventions relating to terrorism as of September 11 2001, the number has now grown to 111.
The document calls on member states to take urgent action to prevent and combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
It was released at a special meeting here on Thursday commemorating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Counter-Terrorism Committee.
The meeting also marked 10 years of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001), adopted in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Addressing the meeting, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said a decade after 9/11, terrorism still remains a “potent threat”, with thousands losing their lives and repeated attacks destabilising regional harmony.
India’s Permanent Representaitve to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri, who chairs the counter-terrorism committee, said the Security Council resolution “brought increasing solidarity and intensified dialogue among states concerning the threat posed by international terrorism and the means to confront it effectively.”
Puri later told reporters that from only two states that were signatories to all the 12 UN conventions relating to terrorism as of September 11 2001, the number has now grown to 111.
