United Nations: Countering terrorism and reformed multilateralism will be among the key priorities for India as it assumes the monthly presidency of the UN Security Council from December 1, culminating its two-year tenure as non-permanent member of the 15-nation powerful body.
“For us, in the December Presidency, our priorities will be countering terrorism for which we have very successfully built a good narrative in these past few months as well as a focus on reformed multilateralism,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj told PTI in an exclusive interview here.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to New York to preside over “signature events” in the Security Council on renewed orientation for reformed multilateralism on December 14 and on countering terrorism on December 15.
Kamboj said counter-terrorism was one of India’s top priorities when it entered the Council on January 1, 2021.
She underscored that from the eight-point action plan on combating terrorism outlined in the Security Council by Jaishankar in January 2021 to the October 2022 Special Meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee hosted by India during which the Delhi Declaration’ was adopted, India has been successful in demonstrating two things.
“One that there can be no justification for terror, it is condemnable, it has to be called out and countries who seek to obfuscate that, seek to justify that should be called out,” Kamboj said.
The second point is that all countries, importantly, should speak with a united voice. “The problem (of terror) is transnational and we have to pool in our resources, knowledge and expertise to speak with a united voice,” she said.
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