Day After India Slammed Pak Over Terror, Sushma Swaraj To Speak At UN: 10 Points

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who will address the United Nations General Assembly today, is likely to speak on state-sponsored terrorism, among other important issues

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Day After India Slammed Pak Over Terror, Sushma Swaraj To Speak At UN: 10 Points

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (AFP)

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will address the United Nations General Assembly today. She raised the issue of terrorism and H-1B visa in a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson yesterday as the two leaders met for the first time in a bilateral setting. Ms Swaraj, on the sidelines of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly, said regional prosperity, connectivity and cooperation can take place only in an atmosphere of peace and security.
Here is your 10-point cheatsheet to this story:
  1. Sushma Swaraj is likely to speak on terrorism, especially against Pakistan, among other important issues. India on Thursday had said Pakistan is now "Terroristan" -- the land of pure terror.
  2. "The number of threats and incidents that endanger South Asia's peace and stability are on the rise," Ms Swaraj had said in her opening statement at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation foreign ministers' meeting yesterday. She is likely to continue speaking on security issues when she addresses the UN General Assembly today.
  3. Ms Swaraj, pre-empting Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's address on Thursday, had pointed out terrorists continue to find shelter in countries using terrorism as an "instrument of state policy".
  4. The Pakistan Prime Minister had devoted much of his first address to the UN General Assembly to accusing India of terror against his country and "war crimes" in Kashmir.
  5. India has caustically described Pakistan as a country whose counter-terrorism policy was to "mainstream and upstream terrorists" by either providing safe havens to terror leaders in its military town or protecting them with political careers -- a reference to Osama bin Laden.
  6. India attaches highest priority to development and prosperity of the region under its "neighbourhood first" policy, Ms Swaraj said in a statement yesterday.
  7. The external affairs minister has called for terrorists' funding, their weapon supply, training and political support to be systematically cut off.
  8. Ms Swaraj has asked the BRICS grouping comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to condemn efforts, including by states, of using religion to sponsor terrorism against other nations.
  9. The Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism or CCIT was proposed by India in 1996 to enhance prosecution and extradition of terrorists.
  10. Established in 1945 under the Charter of the UN, the General Assembly occupies a central position as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN.

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