Ajit Doval will be attending the BRICS conference, which is to be held in Beijing this week. PTI photo.
India will use the BRICS meeting to be hosted by China this week to seek greater counter-terrorism cooperation, with a focus on denying terrorists access to finance and weapons.
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval will call for expanding counter-terrorism cooperation within the BRICS nations, when he attends a meeting with his counterparts from other nations in the bloc - Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa. State Councillor of China Yang Jiechi will host the meeting of BRICS High Representatives, responsible for national security, in Beijing on Thursday and Friday.
Both New Delhi and Beijing are keen to ensure that their cooperation with Brazil, Russia and South Africa, within the multilateral framework of the BRICS, remains unaffected by strains in India-China bilateral relations.
On counterterrorism
Doval will call upon his counterparts from the BRICS nations to strive to expand counterterrorism cooperation within the bloc to include measures for denying terrorists access to finance and terror-hardware, such as equipment, arms and ammunition.
He is also likely to underscore the need for a global legal regime to deal with the menace of international terrorism.
Doval will stress the need to combat terrorism in all its manifestation, without making a distinction between “good terrorists” and “bad terrorists”.