New Delhi: The counter-terror sanction regime of the United Nations has been effective to put countries on notice that turned terrorism into a state-funded enterprise, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday, in an apparent reference to Pakistan. In an address at the meeting of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee in Delhi, Jaishankar described terrorism as "one of the gravest threats" to humanity. He said despite efforts by the UN, the threat of terrorism is only growing and expanding, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Terrorism growing in Asia and Africa: S Jaishankar
"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," he said.
"This has been very effective in putting those countries on notice that had turned terrorism into a state-funded enterprise," Jaishankar said.
In recent yrs, terrorist groups, ideological fellow travellers particularly in open & liberal societies & lone wolf attackers have enhanced their capabilities by gaining access to tech. They use tech, money & ethos of open societies to attack freedom, tolerance & progress: EAM pic.twitter.com/OgVm4ifICh — ANI (@ANI) October 29, 2022
"Despite this, the threat of terrorism is only growing and expanding, particularly in Asia and Africa, as successive reports of the 1267 Sanctions Committee Monitoring Reports have highlighted," he added.
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