India raised the profile of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) as the chair of this committee, said Permanent Ambassador to United Nations Ruchira Kamboj on Wednesday, as she summed up New Delhi’s tenure at the UN high table.
To a question about India’s focus on fighting terrorism under its UNSC tenure, ambassador Kamboj told local media “right at the beginning of our tenure in Jan 2021, External Affairs Minister (S Jaishankar) had presented an eight-point action plan of UN system to credibly address the menace of terrorism and ensure effective action”.
“As the chair of the counter-terrorism committee, we raised the profile of this committee,” she added.
India hosted a special meeting of the UN Security Council’s CTC in October to discuss terror financing through crypto-currency and the use of drones in the new-age terrorism. On October 29, the CTC unanimously adopted the Delhi Declaration on countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes.
Among the listed items in the Declaration was the decision to continue to work on recommendations on the three themes of the Special Meeting and the intention to develop a set of non-binding guiding principles to assist member states to counter the threat posed by the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes.
