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What's the article about?
- It discusses the UN Security Council’s special briefing on the “Global Counterterrorism Approach,” which was convened by India.
Relevance:
- GS2: Important International Institutions, agencies and fora – their Structure, Mandate;
- GS3: Security – Terrorism.
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What is Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC)?
What is terrorism? Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored). |
Analysis:
- Recently a UNSC special briefing on ‘Global Counterterrorism Approach’, that was convened by India, took place.
- This highlights the India’s efforts construct an unified global approach to counter the threats of terrorism.
- In the briefing, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar listed four hurdles to better counterterrorism cooperation. These are
- state support for financing terror
- multilateral mechanisms that are opaque and agenda driven
- double standards and politicisation of countering terrorism according to where terror groups belong
- the “next frontier” (the use of emerging technologies such as drones and virtual currency by terrorists)
- These four hurdles becomes important as the “Global War on Terrorism” and the sanctions regimes launched after 9/11 are in disarray.
- This can be seen from two recent events:
- First, hasty and improper withdrawal of the UNSC’s permanent members, the U.S. and the U.K. from the Afghanistan
- Second, a P-5 country (China) continues to block the designations of Pakistan-based terrorists, including five named this year, from the LeT and the JeM.
- Finally, instead of uniting to accept India’s proposal, of 1996, of a Comprehensive Convention on International Terror to institute global practices on countering terror, the P-5 countries are hopelessly polarised, and irrevocably so, over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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What is Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT):
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Way Forward:
- Given the scenario, New Delhi’s attempt at highlighting the issues during the last few weeks of its two-year UNSC tenure was apt, as it built up to the briefing with conferences in India including a UN Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting, the No Money For Terror conference, and an Interpol conference.
