India, Russia, China condemn terrorism
NEW DELHI: India, China and Russia on Monday called for stronger partnerships and concerted actions by the world community to counter all forms of terrorism and to disrupt terror financing, supply of arms, and spread of terrorist ideology.
A joint communiqué issued after the 15th meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia-indiachina (RIC) here also called for those “committing, organising, inciting or supporting terrorist acts” to be held accountable and brought to justice under international law, including the principle of “extradite or prosecute”.
Though India flagged its concerns about Pakistan-based terror groups such as Lashkar-etaiba, they were not named in the communiqué, which also did not single out any country for backing terror activities.
“I put across my view that significant rise in acts of terrorism by terrorist organisations like Taliban, Daesh (Islamic State), al-qaeda, and Lashkar-e-taiba directly undermine international peace and security and endanger ongoing efforts to strengthen the global economy and ensure sustainable growth,” external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said at a joint press interaction with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
Swaraj also called for a “comprehensive policy for dealing with global terrorism” that includes dealing with extremism, countering religious fanaticism, preventing recruitment, disrupting terrorist movements, stopping terror financing and the flow of foreign terrorist fighters, and countering terrorist propaganda through the internet.
The communiqué said the three countries were committed to “step up cooperation to prevent and counter” terrorism, radicalisation, terrorist ideology and terror financing.
It said they would work together at multilateral forums such as the Financial Action Task force to choke funding for terrorists.
“We agree to strengthen cooperation to take decisive and concerted actions against globally proscribed terrorists and terror entities. We condemn all forms of terrorism and all terrorists, terror entities and organisations listed by the UN Security Council,” it added.