Top UN Security Council physique adopts Delhi Declaration, requires ‘zero tolerance’ in the direction of terrorism

In the declaration, the UN physique expressed considerations over the growing use of web and communications applied sciences, together with social media platforms, for terrorist actions.

Summing up its two-day particular conclave in India that was attended by representatives of 15 member international locations of the UNSC and world counter-terror specialists, it urged all member-states to make sure “zero tolerance” in the direction of terrorism, according to their obligations below worldwide legal guidelines, together with human rights legislation.

Speaking on the particular assembly of the Counter-terrorism Committee in Delhi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Saturday pitched for world efforts to cease attainable misuse of recent applied sciences resembling encrypted messaging and cryptocurrency by “non-state actors” and cautioned that social media platforms have become potent devices within the “toolkit” of terror teams.

Echoing Jaishankar’s considerations, the UNSC stated improvements in monetary applied sciences resembling crowd-funding platforms current a threat of being misused for terrorist-financing and famous with concern the growing world misuse of unmanned aerial methods by terrorists to conduct assaults in opposition to on important infrastructure.

The exterior affairs minister stated that the UNSC’s counter-terrorism sanctions regime has been “very effective in putting those countries on notice that had turned terrorism into a State-funded enterprise”, in a thinly-veiled reference to Pakistan.