Terrorism will continue as the single most crucial threat to peace: India at UNGA

Terrorism will continue as the single most crucial threat to peace and security and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the common agenda of the United Nations, India said at UNGA on Tuesday.

New Delhi: India on Tuesday said that terrorism will continue as the single most crucial threat to peace and security and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the common agenda of the United Nations. Sharing India's perspectives on the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres 'Our Common Agenda' report at the UNGA, India's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, R Ravindra said, "The word terrorism appears only twice in the report whereas climate change appears more than 20 times and the word climate more than 70 times".

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"I do hope that this can be remedied sooner than later since terrorism will continue as the single most crucial threat for peace and security and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the common agenda", he said. While speaking about the report, the ambassador said, "Our vision should embrace reformed multilateralism, gender, human rights, development, counter-terrorism, climate change and environment, financing, pandemic and vaccines, peace and security and other priorities".

India will be a constructive and active participant in such a process that will ensure that member states carefully consider each of the specific proposals in the report, to reach inclusive and consensual outcomes by established UN procedures, he pointed out.

He said, "We are nowhere close to USD 100 billion. Further, the Net-Zero has to be a Global Net-Zero where the developed countries should vacate carbon space by 2050 for developing countries". The official further went on to appreciate the focus on climate change in the report.

"It’s going to define the common agenda no doubt. But as we have emphasized earlier, India is the only one of the G-20 on the path to Paris targets", he reiterated.

The Indian envoy noted that the UN Secretary-General in his report strongly emphasized combatting terrorism. He said that terrorism as a priority has been dealt with rather cursorily in the report,' while adding that the word terrorism appears only twice in the report whereas 'climate change' appears more than twenty times and the word 'climate' more than seventy times.

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