Read More | Source: Times of India | Title: Don’t divide terror into categories: India at UN
NEW DELHI: Calling for collective efforts by UN member states to check terrorism, India warned against attempts to again divide the menace into different categories and erase the gains made in the past two decades.
Participating in the UN general assembly debate on adoption of resolution on 7th Review of Global Counter Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) on Tuesday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, T S Tirumurti, said the international community has acknowledged that the threat of terrorism is grave and universal, and can only be defeated by collective efforts of all UN member states, without any exception.
“It is only after 9/11 that we accepted that terrorism in one part of the world can directly impact another part of the world and we all came together to fight terrorism collectively,” he said.
The envoy said the international community should not forget that before the 9/11 terror attacks, the world was divided into “your terrorists” or “my terrorists”.
Two decades later, “we are now seeing attempts to divide us once again” by adopting new terminologies under the guise of “emerging threats” such as racially and ethnically-motivated violent extremism, violent nationalism, right wing extremism, he said.
“I do hope that member states do not forget history and divide terrorism again into different categories and take us back to the era of “your terrorists’’ and “my terrorists’’ and erase the gains we have had over the last two decades.”
He noted the absence of a universally agreed definition of terrorism is “detrimental to our shared goal” of eliminating the global scourge.
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