Fashioning a global response to the use of new technologies for terrorism, especially new digital payment systems and drones, will be the focus of a special meeting of the UN Security Council’s Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC), to be hosted by India this week.
The meeting will have an informal opening session on October 28 at the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, a venue chosen for its symbolism as it was one of the main targets of a 10-member team from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that unleashed a three-day wave of carnage in India’s financial hub in November 2008.
The session will be attended by external affairs minister S Jaishankar, UK foreign secretary James Cleverly, Gabon foreign minister Michael Moussa Adamo, Ghana foreign minister Shirley Ayorkar Botchwey, UAE minister of state for international cooperation Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy, Albania’s deputy foreign minister Megi Fino and a delegation from the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) led by under secretary general Vladimir Voronkov.
All 15 current members of the UN Security Council and five incoming members of the body will join a solemn ceremony at Hotel Taj Palace, during which a wreath will be laid at the 26/11 memorial site and participants will observe a minute’s silence for the 166 victims of the terror attacks.
Statements in memory of the victims will be read out by Jaishankar and Adamo, since Gabon is the current president of the Security Council. Some victims of the Mumbai...
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