UN Security Council members, including leading experts from the UN's operational partners and specialized agencies, come together in the national capital to discuss threats posed by the use of technologies for terrorist purposes.
India's Permanent Representative, who Counter-Terrorism Committee Chair, stressed the need for better collaboration to share big data-driven innovative solutions with States who lack the necessary resources.
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).
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