Calling on all member nations to make sure “zero tolerance” in the direction of terrorism, the UN Safety Council’s (UNSC) Counter-Terrorism Committee Saturday adopted the Delhi Declaration whereas itemizing its priorities in combating the menace of terrorism and terror-financing.
Within the declaration, the UN physique expressed considerations over the growing use of web and communications applied sciences, together with social media platforms, for terrorist actions.
Summing up its two-day particular conclave in India that was attended by representatives of 15 member international locations of the UNSC and world counter-terror consultants, it urged all member-states to make sure “zero tolerance” in the direction of terrorism, in line with their obligations below worldwide legal guidelines, together with human rights legislation.
Talking on the particular assembly of the Counter-terrorism Committee in Delhi, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Saturday pitched for world efforts to cease potential misuse of recent applied sciences similar to encrypted messaging and cryptocurrency by “non-state actors” and cautioned that social media platforms have changed into potent devices within the “toolkit” of terror teams.
Echoing Jaishankar’s considerations, the UNSC mentioned improvements in monetary applied sciences similar to crowd-funding platforms current a threat of being misused for terrorist-financing and famous with concern the growing world misuse of unmanned aerial methods by terrorists to conduct assaults towards on important infrastructure.
The exterior affairs minister mentioned that the UNSC’s counter-terrorism sanctions regime has been “very efficient in placing these international locations on discover that had turned terrorism right into a State-funded enterprise”, in a thinly-veiled reference to Pakistan.
He additionally introduced that India will probably be making a voluntary contribution of half one million {dollars} to the UN Belief Fund for Counter Terrorism this yr to reinforce the efforts of the UN Workplace of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) in offering capacity-building help to member states in stopping and countering the specter of terrorism.