India is internet hosting a particular assembly of the UN Security Council’s Anti-Terrorism Committee (CTC) to debate the broader subject of ‘countering using new and rising applied sciences for terrorist functions’. The panel can even focus on terror-financing by means of using cryptocurrencies and drones in new-age terrorism.
This would be the first such assembly of the UNSC-CTC in India since its inception in 2001. India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations serves because the Chairman of the CTC for 2022.
Announcing this, Sanjay Verma, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs mentioned, “A particular assembly of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) of the United Nations Security Council shall be held on October 28 and 29, 2022 in Mumbai and Delhi respectively on the broader topic. Will go ‘Combating using new and rising applied sciences for terrorist functions’.
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The use of rising applied sciences to unfold terror is a rising concern internationally. Keeping in view the rising risk posed by the misuse of recent and rising applied sciences in addition to the various optimistic makes use of of applied sciences to counter terrorism, the Anti-Terrorism Committee has proposed to carry this particular assembly in India for the primary time.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, together with representatives of UNSC member states (15 present and 5 incoming) and senior UN officers will lay wreaths on the 26/11 memorial web site in Mumbai and observe a minute’s silence in reminiscence of the victims.
According to Verma, the assembly will start on October 28 with a ‘tender opening session and tribute to the victims of terrorism’ by means of a grand ceremony on the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai. The dialogue will proceed on October 29 in Delhi.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is anticipated to attend the assembly alongside together with his Gabon and Ghanaian counterparts; and junior overseas ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Albania. The delegation shall be led by Vladimir Voronkov, Secretary-General of the United Nations Office on Counter-Terrorism. During the session in Mumbai, Jaishankar and the President of the UNSC, Gabon’s Foreign Minister will learn out statements in reminiscence of the victims. The dialogue was ‘Combating the Terrorist Exploitation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)’, ‘Combating the Financing of Terrorism Online – Threats and Opportunities Related to New Payment Technologies and Fundraising Methods’, and ‘Threats posed by the terrorist use of unmanned aerial autos. ‘ will concentrate on. system’.
Officials mentioned the result of the UNSC CTC assembly will feed into India’s UNSC December Presidency Open Briefing on “Global Counter Terrorism Architecture: Principles and the Way Forward”, which is scheduled to be held in New York on December 15, 2022. “We would really feel honored to listen to the voices of the victims of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist assaults in addition to the 2016 Brussels bombings. The assembly shall be adopted by an off-the-cuff session on combating the financing of terrorism within the native and regional context.
“We can not consider a greater place to carry this assembly than proper right here in India. Not simply because it’s the largest democracy on this planet, but in addition as a result of India is a society the place many cultures and religions co-exist and since India is an innovation and know-how energy Directorate (UN-CTED).
Asked why China was repeatedly blocking efforts to designate Pakistan-based terrorists within the UN, Verma mentioned with out naming any nation, including that the proposals had been thrown into objections on technical grounds.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
