India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar on Thursday (19 August) while speaking at the United Nations Security Council meet said, “countries should not place blocks and holds without any reason on requests to designate terrorists and said that there should be no justification of terrorism,”.
Jaishankar also took a dig at China at the UNSC as it had on occasion bailed out Islamic terror groups in Pakistan like Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar under the Security Council’s Sanctions Committee
S Jaishankar further added, “The international community holds a collective view that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations must be condemned. There cannot be any exception or any justification for any act of terrorism, regardless of motivations behind such acts. Threats to International Peace and Security caused by Terrorist Acts’.
Expressing solidarity with the victims of terrorism around the globe, Jaishankar said,” We must never compromise with this evil” the world must “summon the political will: don’t justify terrorism, don’t glorify terrorists; No double standards. Terrorists are terrorists; distinctions are made only at our own peril; Don’t place blocks and holds on listing requests without any reason,” he said, referring to them as ‘cardinal principles’.
“I call on this Council to collectively build on these principles. It is also important therefore to end the stalemate preventing the adoption of a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, which India has championed for so long,” Jaishankar said.
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