India calls for 'greater vigour' in enforcing UN sanctions against terrorists

India's Permanent Representative to UN Syed Akbaruddin has said that the UN needs more cooperation for implementing its sanctions and regulations against terrorist organizations acting in concern with organized crime. He added that a greater vigour is required for the implementation.

United Nations: India has called for 'greater vigour' in implementing UN and international sanctions and regulations against terrorist organizations acting in concern with organized crime.

The UN needs to increase cooperation with organizations like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which fight money laundering and terror financing, India's Permanent Representative to UN Syed Akbaruddin said on Tuesday.

He said that "The twin scourges of terror and organized crime feed off the same lifelines" and while the nature of their relationship may vary, "They are sustained by the same malignant forces that seek to undermine governance, development and social cohesion through the illegitimate use of violence."

Akbaruddin was speaking at the high-level meeting between the UN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on preventing the linking of terrorism with organized crime and its financing through drug trafficking.

Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "We face an increasingly complex global peace and security environment. Improving our understanding of the nexus between terrorism, transnational organized crime, and drug trafficking is essential.

The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism and other UN entities are developing cooperation frameworks with the SCO and its Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure.

Akbaruddin said, "UN-designated terrorist organizations such as ISIL, Al-Shabab, Al-Qaida, Boko Haram, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to destabilize entire regions through their cross-border financing, propaganda, and recruitment, including by using -- rather abusing -- evolving global public goods such as the cyberspace and social media.

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