External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday expressed his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the horrific Seoul Halloween stampede.
Jaishankar and UK's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly met on the sidelines of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee special meeting and discussed the Ukraine conflict and the Indo-Pacific.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday met his UK, Ghana, and UAE counterparts who participated in the United Nations Security Council special meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) held in Delhi today.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday praised US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken for his strong and clear message on counter-terrorism.
Addressing the UNSC's special meeting in the national capital, Jaishankar said, "India will be making a voluntary contribution of half a million dollars to the UN Trust Fund for Counter Terrorism this year to augment the efforts of Office of Counter-Terrorism in providing capacity-building s
Characterising terrorism as one of the gravest threats to humanity, EAM said," The UN Security Council, in the past two decades, has evolved an important architecture, built primarily around the counter-terrorism sanctions regime, to combat this menace.
Terming terrorism as a global problem and a global threat, UK Foreign Secretary started off his address by thanking External Affairs Minister Jaishankar for using India's Security Council presidency to focus on this crucial issue.
India is hosting the two-day anti-terrorism meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The meeting is being held under New Delhi's chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC).
Stating that the state government is committed to protecting traditional fishing rights, he said that the "infringement of the traditional rights of our fishermen" in the Palk Bay area is a "continuous threat to the safety" of Indian fishermen.
Ghana Foreign Minister, Shirley Ayorkar Botchwey reiterated that every country has a right to act against any country from where the terrorism is being emanated.
Speaking on the occasion, a survivor who was nine at the time expressed her views and requested the strictest laws against terrorism at national and international levels.