India urged the UN to rekindle its energy to play a greater role in maintaining international peace.
New York:
India urged the UN to rekindle its energy to play a greater role in maintaining international peace and security in the fight against terrorism.
Addressing the Sixth Committee of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on “ Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, ” Yedla Umasankar, First Secretary / Legal Adviser to the Permanent Mission of the United Nations India to the UN said the UN must coordinate with agencies like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to fight terrorism.
“Normative efforts within the United Nations must be coordinated through collaboration with other fora such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which plays an important role in setting global standards for prevention and control. money laundering and terrorist financing. “
He said: “It is high time that the United Nations rekindled its energy to play an even greater role in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
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He called on the UN and its member states to take into account the rights of victims of terrorism and the obligations of states towards them under international law.
“The United Nations and its member states should also take into account the rights of victims of terrorism and the obligation of states to victims of terrorism under international law. It is important to note that the vast majority of victims of terrorism are often women and children. It is high time for us to try to redouble our efforts to achieve the goal of establishing a global legal framework in the form of the General Convention on International Terrorism to combat a global scourge. This will provide a legal basis for the global fight against terrorism because all member states will have a multilateral platform to fight terrorism, ”Yedla Umasankar told the UN.
He further stressed that the links between terrorists and their supporters should be exposed and destroyed.
“We need an international mechanism to ensure accountability and justice, strengthen dialogue and broaden understanding among Member States. As the threat from international terrorism looms, the United Nations is still unable to agree on a comprehensive convention on international terrorism. one of the most glaring shortcomings of the international legislative framework which could have revived the efforts of repression to destroy the terrorist havens, their financial flows and their support networks ”, he declared.
During the UNGA, India also underlined the importance and the need for an early finalization and conclusion of the draft CCIT (Comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism), which will reflect the country’s commitment to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. “We must all realize the gravity and move forward to adopt the CCIT draft text, which is balanced and emerged after long discussions,” said the First Secretary.
Yedla Umasankar underlined India’s strong support for General Assembly resolution 74/194 of December 18, 2019, in which paragraph 25 recommends the Sixth Committee to establish the “Working Group to finalize the process on the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism “.
