United Nations, Nov 18: India has highlighted the urgent need to finalise a global convention on terrorism, asserting that the financing being provided to terrorist groups such as ISIS and LeT needs to be addressed collectively.
“Leaders had, in the 2005 Summit, decided that expeditious action would be taken to finalise the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. That has not happened, India’s permanent representative in the UN saidon Tuesday.
He said terrorism takes away the foremost of human rights, the right to life. It is truly a crime against humanity.
He said, all terrorist organisations – Daesh, or Al Shabaab or Lashkar-e-Tayyaba or Al-Qaeda – have an ideological basis that contradicts the basic tenets of humanity. Ideology alone, however, is not enough to sustain terrorists. They need financing and space to operate. That is, unfortunately, provided to them. And that is what needs to be addressed collectively.
The UNSC held the already scheduled debate on conflict prevention amid added urgency fuelled by last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris, with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon stressing that counter-terrorism must also tackle such root causes as bad governance, injustice and exclusion.
